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 -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) 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 amanda-server recommends no packages. -- no debconf information