On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:26:49PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: > > You can replace the program "GNUTAR" line with a dumptype. In your case, > > you would change your DLE to be > > > > borg /home { > > user-tar-span > > compress CLIENT BEST # This may already be defined in root-tar > > index yes # This may already be defined in root-tar > > exclude list "amanda.exclude" > > } 1 > > > > Your compress and index lines are overriding anything in root-tar. It may > > be redundant, but I just thought I'd point it out. > > > I'm sure that the problems are being caused by conflicting/overriding > commands > - it's just finding them that's the problem :-) I tried commenting out the > compress and index lines, but attempting to run the dump still tells me that > Line 271 (root-tar) needs a dump-type parameter. >
Do you have root-tar defined as a dumptype somewhere in amanda.conf? I has to be defined before you can reference it. It will start define dumptype root-tar { global program "GNUTAR" ... } Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263