On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 at 1:12pm, GIC MLs wrote > A couple of questions from my log file: > > planner: RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/r" DUMP="/sbin/dump" > planner: RESTORE="/sbin/restore" GNUTAR="/usr/bin/tar" > > Should I be using gtar instead?
Yes -- you *must* use GNU tar. But, depending upon your OS, /usr/bin/tar, may be GNU. Try '/usr/bin/tar --version'. > How do I change this setting? Install GNUtar (if necessary), then recompile amanda specifying the correct location. > planner: DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1" > > My amanda.conf has labelstr "^daily[0-9][0-9]$*" - > where is this DailySet1 coming from? > > planner: DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM > > My amanda.conf has tapedev "/dev/nrsa0" ... what gives? These are defaults compiled into the various amanda bits. Look at the output of './configure --help' in the amanda source directory to see where the defaults come from. > got result for host client.agic.ne.jp disk /usr: > 0 -> -1K, -1 -> -1K, -1 -> -1K > > Is this bad? Yes. > And the failure that I've been getting: > > getting estimates took 0.183 secs > FAILED QUEUE: > 0: client.agic.ne.jp /usr > DONE QUEUE: empty > > ANALYZING ESTIMATES... > planner: FAILED client.agic.ne.jp /usr 0 [disk /usr offline on > client.agic.ne.jp?] It's probably a permissions issue. What user/group are you running amanda as? Are you using inetd or xinetd? Did you do the install as root? What OS? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
