On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:40, Silver Salonen wrote: >Hi. > >As I'm in kind of hurry (I'm writing a bachelor's thesis about backups > and a small part of it is about Amanda and the deadline is at the > beginning of the next week), I installed Amanda 2.5.0 RPM for FC4 on > FC5. > >I've looked Amanda's official documentation's page about a dozen > times, but it looks somewhat obfuscating, so now I tried to start > with Amanda according to Zmanda's quick start guide > (http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start). BTW, could anybody > suggest a nice documentation where it would be possible to get a nice > and quick overview about Amanda's structure (the main process, > dealing with backup-media, etc. - some chema maybe)? The main > documentation is really scary - it has specific information and > how-to's about different parts, but the overall picture.. :( > >I've configured everything exactly as written on the quick start page, > but when I try to label a virtual tape (being actually a folder on > hard drive), I get several errors about my amanda.conf. > >I execute: ># su - amandabackup >$ cd /backup/amanda-vtapes/ >$ ammt -t file:/backup/amanda-vtapes/tape rewind >$ amlabel daily Test-01 > >And get: > >"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 164: holding disk parameter > expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 164: end of line > expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 166: holding disk > parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 166: end of > line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 168: holding disk > parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 168: end of > line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 170: holding disk > parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 170: end of > line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 213: holding disk > parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 213: end of > line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 214: holding disk > parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 214: end of > line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 217: holding disk > parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 217: end of > line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 218: holding disk > parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 219: holding > disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 219: > end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 220: > holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line > 221: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", > line 221: end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line > 222: holding disk parameter expected amlabel: errors processing > config file "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf" > >I think there's no point to copy-paste all the problematic lines, but > I'd do it about some of the first. Lines from 164 to 168 are: > >infofile "/var/lib/amanda/daily/curinfo" # database > DIRECTORY logdir "/var/lib/amanda/daily" # > log directory indexdir "/var/lib/amanda/daily/index" # index > directory tapelist "/var/lib/amanda/daily/tapelist" # list of > used tapes # tapelist is stored, by default, in the directory that > contains amanda.conf > >I've googled about this error, but everything I've found is some of > Amanda's source-code. > >Is the FC4 version really so incompatible with FC5 or what could be > the problem? > >Thanks in advance, >Silver
Did you at any point, try to edit that with an M$ application? That smells like a linefeed problem where carriage returns got into it somehow. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
