Following another suggestion I had a few minutes ago, I ran
amadmin Daily disklist
The 'program' listed was DUMP so I added
program 'GNUTAR' to my disklist to give
xxx /etc {
nocomp-user
program "GNUTAR"
}
amadmin now says GNUTAR but the same error comes up in the report.
> My error, that doesn't tell you. I think Amanda defaults to dump if it can
> find it. On many systems dump can only work on filesystems but that's not
> true with the linux dump. What version of dump are you running?
> /sbin/dump --version
> will give an error message and the dump version. 0.4b21 is the latest and
> best. If you're running an older one I suggest getting the latest from
> www.sourceforge.net.
>
0.4b19 so I'll get the latest version
> Try specifying a partition to back up in your disklist file. /tmp should be quick
> if it exists.
back to work...
thanks
Dirk
