Hi,
I have 2 problems on
my hand with Amanda, and I was wondering if any of you would care to help a
clueless newbie.
First
prob:
I have a raid system
running ReiserFS (which is why I am turning to Amanda, ditching ARCserve) where
Mac users (via netatalk) would create tons of directories with funny
characters like spaces and danish characters. I would like to back that up for
some mysterius reason (duh!).
Since the raid
system is to large for 1 DLT tape I can't dump the whole file system to
tape. So I have to use gnutar and reference the directories. You cannot put
entries in the disklist file with funny characters, so I tried to make
a directory named .backup where I put symlinks to the directories called
dump1, dump2 etc. This way I could manage the dumpsizes by gathering symlinks in
the directories glancing at the directory sizes.
The only thing is,
now I have a bunch of tapes with symlinks on them and nothing else.
I have also tried
making hard links but that is not permitted, even though I am root and try to
force it with the -F option.
Second
prob:
It turns out after
installing the Amanda from scratch with source compilation etc. that the system
already had an Amanda RPM installed. Naturally, the first thing I did when
I learned that was to do a 'rpm -e amanda'. But now I have pieces of the RPM
installed and pieces of the Amanda source compialtion installed. How do I wipe
out everything from both installations so I can have a clean install from
source? I tried all kinds of make uninstall, make distclean, reinstalling and so
on. I still have some amanda deamons wanting stuff one place and other daemons
wanting the same stuff somewhere else...
Any help would be
appreciated...
;-Pete
