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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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