On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 at 12:26pm, Alex Specogna wrote > Originally I was under the impression that amdump ran amreport for me > and just wasn't outputting anything. Wrong, amreport needs to be run > separately. flaw in logic number 1
No, actually that's the way it "should" work, and does for me. The only amanda command my nightly script runs is 'amdump', and when I come in every morning the report email is waiting for me and the tape labels are on the printer. I run 2.4.2p2 on Linux. > >From my experimentation amreport APPENDS the text after the -p flag (in > this case "test.ps") to the current directory name you are in and places > the file one directory above your current location. e.g. if you are in > /usr/home and you run the command line mentioned above you would get a > file called /usr/hometest.ps. > I also noticed that if you do not include the Set name in the output > name of the -p flag it behaves similarly. Hence to correctly get the > labels working do the following: > > 1) Define the lbl-temp directive in your tapetype definition. > 2) Run the amreport command as follows: > amreport <Set Name> -l <full path to log file> -f /dev/null -p <output > file inc. set name> > > e.g. > amreport Backups -l /usr/adm/amanda/Backups/log.20020903.0 -f > /dev/null -p /tmp/Backups-0903.ps > > This will put the file in a predictable location of /tmp and solve a lot > of headaches. That all sounds *very* odd and not the way it works here. If you could, can you give 2.4.2p2 a shot? Or try upgrading to 2.4.3b4 (just released), which might just become 2.4.3. Are there any strange errors or things missing when you ./configure? That behavior just doesn't sound right. > This is one thing that the Amanda application is really bad at.. > documentation. The application is fabulous.. all it needs is someone to > champion the cause of making it easy to use (through documentation). Actually, between "the chapter" at backupcentral.com, docs/INSTALL, example/*, the list archives, and F-O-M, all the info really is out there. What you're experiencing isn't the right/planned behavior, which is why, I think, you see it the way you do. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
