Radu Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello, Johanness!
>
> Thank you very much for your answer.
>
> On 27 Feb 2001, Johannes Niess wrote:
>
> > 1) Amanda sets options for gnutar to stop at partition boundaries.
>
> >From the logs I see that it's not this one...
>
> > 2) If your holding disk is on the same partition as /, Amanda tries to
> > backup the holding disk. Its a vicious circle.
>
> holdingdisk hd1 {
> comment "main holding disk"
> directory "/tmp"
> use -150 Mb
> chunksize -1
> }
>
> [root@server2 DailySet1]# mount
> /dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/sda6 on /tmp type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/sda5 on /var type ext2 (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
>
> > I'd recomment to include your holding disk directory into the
> exclude > list. My setup uses the /tmp partition as holding disk,
> which is not > backed up.
>
> Like I wrote into the holding disk? It is correct?
That's ok. I recommend to set chunksize to 1.9 GB, a positive value to
"use", and a fair percentage for reserve (to allow level 0's while in
degraded mode). But it depends on your situation.
>
> But if I write exludce list /tmp" in define dumptype root-tar I
> get the error: (/ disk offilne).
>
> Now, then I tryed again I get another strange error. Aay ideea?
[...]
> FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
>
> /-- server2 / lev 0 STRANGE
> sendbackup: start [server2:/ level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -f... -
> sendbackup: info end
> ? gtar: ./dev/log: socket ignored
> | Total bytes written: 353484800 (337MB, 2.8MB/s)
> sendbackup: size 345200
> sendbackup: end
> \--------
The "socket ignored" looks ok to me. You can double check 337MB vs. df
/ .
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