It was a spelling error in my amanda.conf file of the exclude list.
I will now accept a slap.
jeff
On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:31 pm, Doug Silver wrote:
> 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"
> }
