On Friday 28 April 2006 16:53, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.
No-no, I already got a solution for that.. there was an uncomplete bracket ;) Silver
