On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Jeffrey Auerbach wrote:
> I have my exclude lists on the client systems but I am not sure that they are
> being used. The total space that gets backed up is about 80MB or so.
> According to amstatus it is trying to dump 633MB which is roughly half the
> amount of space on the file system. I'm pretty sure that my exclude lists
> are correctly working.
> How can I tell if gtar is using the exclude list? If I do a ps -auxww | grep
> gtar on the client after I run amdump from the server, I get this:
>
> root 74765 5.6 0.4 4844 4592 ?? D 11:55am
>0:39:54 /usr/localbin/gtar
> --create -file /dev/null --directory /usr --one-file-system
> --listed-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/smtp0da0s1e_0.new
> --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals .
>
> Notice there is not --exclude.
>
> What did I do wrong?
>
> jeff
>
first, check in /tmp/amanda for easier debugging. The runtar.*.debug
should have something like this:
runtar: debug 1 pid 29180 ruid 0 euid 0 start time Thu Mar 14 02:25:05
2002
gtar: version 2.4.2p2
running: /usr/local/bin/gtar: gtar --create --file - --directory
/export/home --one-file-system --listed-incremental
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/fred.quantified.net_export_home_0.new
--sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
/var/amanda/exclude-list .
Also make sure in your amanda.conf file your exclude list is defined and
exists on the client:
define dumptype gtar {
comment "Default Gnutar backup"
index yes
program "GNUTAR"
compress client fast
exclude list "/var/amanda/exclude-list"
}
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Doug Silver
Network Manager
Quantified Systems, Inc
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