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
