>now: our exclude.gtar doesnt work properly, i.e. if we are backing up
>filesystem w mount point: /fs
>then an entry like /fs/somedirectory is not excluded.
Amanda runs GNU tar in the directory you put in disklist, so the exclusion
entry needs to be relative to that, i.e. "./somedirectory".
I always have trouble with exclusion patterns. Here's a little script
to test them in the same way Amanda uses GNU tar:
ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gtartest-exclude
>I have seen on the amanda-patches page that there are problems with gnu
>tar 1.13
>" with exclude patterns and restoring"
I think that's referring literally to version "1.13" of GNU tar, which
seems to appear on this list from time to time. If you're already past
that at 1.13.19, you should be in good shape.
>3) If there are showstopper problems with 1.13, then perhaps someone has
>patches to 1.12 to get it to backup files > 2 gig on solaris 2.6
>(actually we should be going to solaris 8 soon)
This is GNU tar related, not Amanda related, but I think I remember
playing with it at one time and the basic idea was to add whatever:
getconf LFS_CFLAGS
reports to your compile lines and whatever:
getconf LFS_LDFLAGS
getconf LFS_LIBS
reports to the load/link line. I'm pretty sure this got gzip going,
but tar may have other issues since it knows a lot more about files.
Using 1.13.19 is, without doubt, the much easier approach.
>shanna leonard
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
