Hi, thanks all for the responses. I went followed your advice of reinstalling Amanda. Now I have the config folder in /usr/local/etc/Amanda. I am now at the point where when I do amcheck, I get three errors:
1)Can not open exclude file /usr/local/lib/Amanda/exclude/gtar ... 2)Can not read/write /etc/amandates ... 3) Cannot read/write /usr/local/var/Amanda/gnutar-lists/ ... I am at a loss because unlike before I cannot find these files anywhere. Any ideas? I cannot find reference to a similar problem in the archives (scanning the titles). Thanks in advance. -----Original Message----- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:15 PM To: Harry Mbang; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need A sample Tapelist file On Tuesday 24 June 2003 17:27, Harry Mbang wrote: >Hi, > I am still trying to get my first successful Amanda backup. > Now when I run amcheck, I get an error > >"cannot read/write /usr/local/var/Amanda/gnutar-lists: No such file > or directory" > >Indeed there is no such file or directory. My gnutar-lists is > located in /var/lib/Amanda. What shall I do? I am also guessing > that Amanda is going to want read/write other files and folders in > the non-extisting directory. Should I recompile Amanda with some > option specifying the default directory for that type files and > folders? Thanks in advance for any advice. > >Harry. It sounds as if you have a mix-n-match install there. If an rpm, it could be /var/lib/amanda. But the default for building a tarball is /usr/local/whatever. Move your tapelists and the rest of your config stuff to /usr/local/etc/amanda and see if that fixes things by running amcheck (as the user who normally runs amanda, it won't run as root), and fixing any other errors (warnings can be ignored) that pop up. Also do an 'rpm -e amanda*' to get rid of the rpms , they have no business surviving on the system if you have built amanda from a tarball. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
