On 8 December 2011 12:09, Marcus Furlong <furlongm@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:47, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:32:20AM +1100, Glenn McIntosh wrote:
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Another variation: grab a the snapshot version the bug was fixed in from here:
http://snapshot.debian.org/package/amanda/
Having said that, I'd only install the snapshot to verify the bug was fixed, then hunt backports for a version, while planning how to upgrade from oldstable to stable.
Marcus. -- Marcus Furlong
Wow! this is what I wanted - the wayback time machine to debian packages.... I found it at: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/amanda/1%3A2.5.2p1-5/#amanda-client_1:3a:... Thanks Marcus for that Also thanks Craig - I actually did extract the source package from your link and re-built it (not that hard following instructions here - http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rebuilding-ubuntu-debian-linux-binary-package/ and then did an install. Yep - this machine is scheduled for replacement soon - hence reluctance to upgrade it. By the way I also hit another bug in my travels - dump: (I installed the testing version of this - on a different machine) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614068 This was a work around of another bug in tar incrementals which looped apparently endlessly (there are other bugs) so I switched to dump... Didn't find a bug specific to this - and it only happened on a 200Gb disk drive so not sure what was the trigger - but it didn't happen if you didn't request incremental tar (amanda does by default). Just thought I would mention this - because if you are relying on tar/dump/amanda for back ups - you might want to check you are not bitten by these before you *really* need them to be working... Thanks again for everyone's rapid / prompt replies. Andrew