Jenn Sturm wrote: > -- > I've configured my Linux box to backup my Irix box using tar, as > recommended on this list. It works great for everything but the root > paritition. I've tried dumptype comp-root-tar and root-tar, and it > continues to fail. I tried creating an exclude.gtar file, and that > doesn't seem to be helping any. > > Here's the contents of the exclude.gtar file. Does the hostname of > the Irix box need to be in there? > > ./dev/fd > ./tmp > ./var/spool
I was experiencing the exact same problems backing up my Irix box. My exclude file looks as follows: CDROM CIFS Desktop users users2 scratch tmp dev usrs The users.. and usrs directories are backed up as filesystems so that's why they are excluded here. I'm not sure whether this is sufficient, but it definitely took care of my problems. Remember though that the exclude file needs to reside on the client that's being backed up. I.e. you can have a different exclude file for each client. Amanda will look for the exclude file in the directory specified in the dumptype - on the client. Jan -- ================================================ Jan Boshoff PhD Student, Chemical Engineering Univ. of Delaware, DE USA www.che.udel.edu/research_groups/nanomodeling ================================================
