On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 at 11:25am, David Flood wrote

> I upgraded from amanda 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.3b3 and while I was doing it I chenged my 

You know that "b" means beta, right?

> amanda user from root to bin. Firstly I started to get errors saying disklist, 
> /var/adm/* and /tmp/amanda/* was not readable. I have .amandahosts in /usr/bin 
> with the neccesary entries so I did not really understand this but I chowned 
> them to bin anyway. Now when I do a amcheck I get the following:

Amanda needs to write to this directories as the user you configure it as.  
If that changes, then you need to change ownership on the relevant 
directories.

> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> Holding disk /export/dumps/amanda: 9436770 KB disk space available, using 
> 8924770 KB
> ERROR: cannot overwrite active tape SCMS14
>        (expecting tape SCMS15 or a new tape)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Server check took 6.083 seconds
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: localhost: [DUMP does not support exclude file]
> Client check: 1 host checked in 0.200 seconds, 1 problem found
> 
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3b3)
> 
> I kept all the old database files hence it's expecting scms15 even though I have 
> not been able done a backup with the updated amdna yet?

Yep -- version (as long as they're compatibile, which all 2.4.x are) 
doesn't matter.

> I've just noticed that one of my dumps types has an exclude which is: 
> 
> exclude "/tmp"
> 
> Is the exclude format different in amanda 2.4.3b3? It should be noted that this 
> config worked before going to *3b3 so I presume dump can handle excludes.

>From the amanda.conf included with 2.4.2p2:
#   exclude     - specify files and directories to be excluded from the dump.
#                 Useful with gnutar only; silently ignored by dump and samba.

So now it's being noted as an error, not silently ignored.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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