Amanda::Config::getconf($CNF_LABELSTR) now returns a ref to a hash in 3.4.1

2017-01-09 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, Revamping a few scripts that I use with amanda-3.3.x in prevision of transitioning to 3.4.1 and one is using a call to Amanda::Config::getconf($CNF_LABELSTR). With Amanda-3.3.5 I get a simple string: perl code: my $labelStr = Amanda::Config::getconf($CNF_LABELSTR); print "DEBUG: Got

Re: big estimate / faulty dump

2017-01-09 Thread j...@jgcomp.com
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 06:12:25PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > Well, due to the resounding silence …. let’s try some experiments: > What happens when you manually dump (or tar?) the area to a scratch area? > What size backup do you get? > Perhaps some of the files are large but marked “no

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda -- "backup" user under Debian

2017-01-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 14:21:00 -0500 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:51:45 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > May I request you end two irritants about the Debian version. It > > creates a user, "backup". That's fine, although "amanda", say, > > would

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda -- "backup" user under Debian

2017-01-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve, The amanda-client can be run with any user. The user is compiled in, but it doesn't need to be the same on the amanda server and amanda-client. What was the problem? Jean-Louis On 09/01/17 02:41 PM, Steve Wray wrote: For what its worth, this creates problems with inter-operability

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda -- "backup" user under Debian

2017-01-09 Thread Steve Wray
For what its worth, this creates problems with inter-operability between CentOS and Debian; we rebuilt the CentOS rpm for amanda client so it used the backup user instead of amanda, as our amanda server was on Debian. We tried hard but never found a way to configure this. It would be nice to be

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda -- "backup" user under Debian

2017-01-09 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:51:45 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > May I request you end two irritants about the Debian version. It creates > a user, "backup". That's fine, although "amanda", say, would avoid > stepping on some other user named "backup". > > The irritant is that debian makes the

Re: big estimate / faulty dump

2017-01-09 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Well, due to the resounding silence …. let’s try some experiments: What happens when you manually dump (or tar?) the area to a scratch area? What size backup do you get? Perhaps some of the files are large but marked “no dump” or something. (Though I imagine estimates take that into

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda

2017-01-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jose, Thanks for the patch. I committed the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 08/01/17 01:35 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > I am reviewing the patches used by Debian to build amanda 3.3.9 and > updating them for amanda 3.4.1. I think some of them are not specific > to Debian. My plan is to present

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda

2017-01-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 08/01/17 04:56 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 06:35:39PM +, Jose M Calhariz wrote: >> I am reviewing the patches used by Debian to build amanda 3.3.9 and >> updating them for amanda 3.4.1. I think some of them are not specific >> to Debian. My plan is to present the