Hi everyone,
Thanks for your responses. Basically, I should clarify: I knew that
the exclusions file was being read because some rules in it were
working; it's just those with wildcards that were not. The thought
occured to me that maybe I ought to write to the tar folks about it.
Apparently, there is a bug in glibc that is triggered by the pattern
patching code in tar. They gave me a tar patch that works around it,
and this solved my problem!
Thanks again to everyone for your helpful suggestions.
-- John
"Bernhard R. Erdmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 07:09:55PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In my exclude rules for the /var filesystem backup, I have some lines
> > like this:
> >
> > ./spool/postfix/private/*
> > ./lib/lists-archives/archives/*
> >
> > Which, according to the docs, are the right way to do this (there are
> > sockets in those directories which cause gtar warnings.) However,
> > they are ignored! Also, lines like:
>
> Did you install the exclude list as defined in the appropriate
> dumptype on the client? Is the file read by Amanda/tar? (Check the
> access time with "ls -lu".)
>
--
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.complete.org
Sr. Software Developer, Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. www.progenylinux.com
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