Maybe mkdir /opt/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar-lists? As for what gnutar-lists are, they are the way that gnutar determines which files have changed for incremental backups. I believe they contain file names and modification times.
> > I did have the smbclient defined at configure time but I run the > configure again and I noticed it was complaining about that address > and said it would be ignored. I then realised I had put > --with-smbclient=/opt/samba/bin/ instead of > --with-smbclient=/opt/samba/bin/smbclient > > I also discovered that my tar parameter was pointing to the wrong > version of tar. > > With all this fixed I've got it down to one error: > > ERROR: father: [can not read/write /opt/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar- > lists/.:No such file or directory] > > I suspect this is a default value because /opt/amanda/var/amanda > does not exist for me. I keep my config files in > /opt/amanda/etc/amanda/ and I keep my index files in > /var/adm/amanda. So where can I set this value, is it in my > amanda.conf and if so what keywords do I use? Also because I've > never used GNUTAR until know I don't have any gnutar-lists. What > are gnutar-lists? >
