I have two (hopefully) quick questions.
I'm running an ultra5, and trying to level0 a 60+gig filesystem. Using
software compression took over 22 hours (i killed it at that point) so I
decided to use hardware, specifying /dev/rmt/0cn as the tape device in
amanda.conf. When I tried to run amdump, it failed saying that "dumps
too large for disk", which is true if you don't count the hardware
compression I was trying to use. The tapes are AIT2 50GB tapes. Is there
a way to force amanda to do this? I assume perhaps amadmin csd force
<diskname> ? I wanted to know for sure before kicking off another
20+hour backup cycle. Or is there something that I have to configure in
amanda to let it know i'm using hardware compression and to ignore tape
warnings?
The second and sort-of corollary to that is what is the exact syntax of
exclude files referenced from disklist? I can't seem to find an exact
answer in the documentation/FAQOMATIC. The examples/disklist file has
the following:
slowsrv /usr {
user-tar
exclude list ".exclude"
compress server fast
} 2 le0 # no line break before spindle and interface
Does that mean that .exclude is in /usr ? Is it exclude absolute
pathnames or any pattern match? In other words if I want to exclude
/usr/bob, and in the exclude I have /bob, will that exclude any match
for bob, or only subdirs of the mount being backed up? Likewise, what
are the "compress server fast" lines about?
Thanks!
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Matthew Boeckman (816) 777-2160
Manager - Systems Integration Saepio Technologies
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