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?
On the older 2.4.5 version I have, the man page shows it as singular, but I don't use it so it could be a typo. Are you sure that's a number zero and not a letter o? Do you possibly have an error on a previous line (mismatched quotes or such) confusing the parser. Frank > > Anne -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
