Package: amanda-server
Version: 1:2.5.2p1-1
Severity: minor

Hello,

until amanda-server version 1:2.5.1p1-2.1 I can use a holdingdisk
definition like this, where /amholding/ is the mountpoint of an own
ext2 partition.

holdingdisk amholding1 {
    directory "/amholding/"
    chunksize 10000 MB
    use -10 MB
}

Starting with 1:2.5.2p1-0ms1, which is a backport of 1:2.5.2p1-1 from
lenny to etch, my backups fails completely with the error message:

  driver: FATAL flush line 1: syntax error (skipping != FLUSH)

The reason is the existence of some other stuff in /amholding/. In my
case /amholding/lost+found. Which was no problem with older versions.

The solution was to move the holdingdisk one degree down in the path.

holdingdisk amholding1 {·
    directory "/amholding/holding/"·
    chunksize 10000 MB·
    use -10 MB·
}


I suggest that you put something like this in
/user/share/doc/amanda/README.First or similar:

----------------------------------------------------------
 WARNING
 Amanda 1:2.5.2p1-1 does not accept stuff like lost+found
 directories in its holding disk area. If your holdingdisk
 is in the root of an own Partition move it down in an
 separate subdirectory. Otherwise your backups will fail.
----------------------------------------------------------

For more info see:
http://forums.zmanda.com/archive/index.php/t-591.html


Thanks,
Martin





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Versions of packages amanda-server depends on:
ii  amanda-common    1:2.5.2p1-0ms1          Advanced Maryland Automatic Networ
ii  libc6            2.3.6.ds1-13etch4       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5      5.5-5                   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5     5.2-2                   GNU readline and history libraries
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent

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