On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:13:39PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 17 April 2006 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > One of the goals of the amanda planner is to have a consistant > > sized backup each run. That is clearly not going to happen > > with the DLEs you are backing up. If you want to defeat this > > aspect of amanda's planning the parameters are there, probably > > maxpromotedays 0 is what you want. > > Backup failed today, with the errors > > "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf", line 26: configuration keyword > expected > "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf", line 26: end of line expected > amgetconf: errors processing config file > "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf" > > Line 26 says > > maxpromotedays 0 # Ensure reasonable number of incrementals > > I had initially missed the final 's' of maxpromotedays, but even after > correcting that, amcheck gives the same errors. What could I be overlooking? >
You shouldn't trust everything said on the mailing list ;( According to the manpage for amanda/amanda.conf, it is singular, no "s". But check it for spelling too. If amcheck still complains show us a chunk of your config file around the problem line. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)