On Thursday 01 November 2018 09:09:36 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 08:21:55 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > And an amcheck fusses with 3.3.7p1 reinstalled:
> >
> > amcheck-server: Bogus line in the tapelist file: 20181101030104
> > Dailys-28 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:Daily STORAGE:Daily CONFIG:Daily
> >
> > Should I nuke that line before it runs?
>
> Ah, ugh.
>
> It's complaining because v3.4/3.5 added pool and storage, etc. info to
> those lines, which 3.3 doesn't understand.
>
> I am pretty sure it will complain about all the tapelist lines that
> have been touched since you moved to 3.5, so nuking that one line
> won't be sufficient.
>
> I have no experienced downgrading like this, and suspect there might
> be other files that have similar incompabilities.
>
> Personally I would say you'd be better off switching back to 3.5 and
> moving forward from there, rather than trying to track down all the
> strange problems that will pop up trying to downgrade. (Especially
> since no one who actually knows anything about what would be involved
> in such an undertaking is around to guide you...)
Yeah BETSOL sure isn't making an effort, and actions speak a hell of a
lot louder than their non-existant messages to this list have. Sorry
about the attitude, but thats how I see it.
We, the community should start a gofundme to hire JLM a week a month and
fork this. But I know zip about how to start the "gofundme", and if its
facebooks copyright, do something else, someplace else. Anyplace else,
Zuckerburg would sell his mother by the lb and stand there smiling.
> (Keep in mind that 3.5 appears to be actually doing the backups just
> fine; the saving-info problem is more cosmetic than functional....)
True also its seems. But it would be nice to fix some of these warts.
Nathan
Take care all.
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