2.6.1p2 amcheck doesn't like define holdingdisk in my amanda.conf

2010-03-29 Thread Craig Constantine
I have an /etc/amanda/foo/amanda.conf which starts with: define holdingdisk external_holding { directory /media/amanda_holdingdisk } ...and amcheck complains: amandabac...@backupserver:/etc/amanda/foo$ amcheck foo /etc/amanda/foo/amanda.conf, line 2: DUMPTYPE, INTERFACE, TAPETYPE,

Re: 2.6.1p2 amcheck doesn't like define holdingdisk in my amanda.conf

2010-03-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 March 2010, Craig Constantine wrote: I have an /etc/amanda/foo/amanda.conf which starts with: define holdingdisk external_holding { directory /media/amanda_holdingdisk } ...and amcheck complains: amandabac...@backupserver:/etc/amanda/foo$ amcheck foo /etc/amanda/foo/amanda.conf,

Re: 2.6.1p2 amcheck doesn't like define holdingdisk in my amanda.conf

2010-03-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 March 2010, Craig Constantine wrote: I don't think it needs the 'define' above, here is mine that has been in continuous use for several years now: Thanks! Yeah, it's a mistake in the man page (which says define holdingdisk name ) -c I appreciate the reply, but it should be

Re: 2.6.1p2 amcheck doesn't like define holdingdisk in my amanda.conf

2010-03-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Craig Constantine cr...@blkbx.com wrote: ...line 2 is the define holdingdisk . . . line. Isn't this how I define a holdingdisk? Until 3.1, you had to just use holdingdisk foo { ... } In 3.1, you can define as many holding disks as you want, and then use

Re: 2.6.1p2 amcheck doesn't like define holdingdisk in my amanda.conf

2010-03-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Yeah, it's a mistake in the man page (which says define holdingdisk name ) -c I appreciate the reply, but it should be kept on list so the next person can search the archives.  I've added it. I suspect you're

Re: 2.6.1p2 amcheck doesn't like define holdingdisk in my amanda.conf

2010-03-29 Thread Craig Constantine
I have an /etc/amanda/foo/amanda.conf which starts with: define holdingdisk external_holding { directory /media/amanda_holdingdisk } ...it seems it should be just holdingdisk name { that works with amcheck, etal. (I've emailed jds@ about the error in the man page for amanda.conf .) -c

Re: 2.6.1p2 amcheck doesn't like define holdingdisk in my amanda.conf

2010-03-29 Thread Craig Constantine
I suspect you're looking a the newest manpages. The 2.6.1 manpages are correct for that version: http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/2.6.1/amanda.conf.5.html#id538874 yeup. I got zinged by the recent release of 3.1, combined with my older bookmark to the current manpages... doh :)

Re: 2.6.1p2 amcheck doesn't like define holdingdisk in my amanda.conf

2010-03-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Craig Constantine cr...@blkbx.com wrote: that works with amcheck, etal. (I've emailed jds@ about the error in the man page for amanda.conf .) I'm sure he'll be amused! He's moved on to bigger and better things (well, smaller and better .. embedded systems and

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data timeout

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
This is a sendbackup debug file from my amanda client, a Solaris 10 Sparc system with amanda 2.6.1p1. The server is a solaris 9, with amanda 2.4.* We backup several other smaller partitions between this client and server successfully but this one has been failing intermittently and with greater

amanda 2.6.1 -- incremental same size as level 0

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hi amanda users, I'm running a Solaris 10 sparc system with amanda 2.6.1. The server only has itself as a client. We have been running fairly well but have noticed that the level 1 dumps are virtually identical in size to the level 0 dumps. These dumps are gtar using zfs snapshots and the

Re: 2.6.1p2 amcheck doesn't like define holdingdisk in my amanda.conf

2010-03-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Craig Constantine cr...@blkbx.com wrote: ...line 2 is the define holdingdisk . . . line. Isn't this how I define a holdingdisk? Until 3.1, you had to just use holdingdisk foo { ... } In 3.1, you can define