If you want exclude files or directories from being dumped, recompile amanda with "./configure --with-dump-honor-nodump" and read man (chflags|chattr) for nodump flag.
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, David Flood wrote: > I upgraded from amanda 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.3b3 and while I was doing it I chenged my > amanda user from root to bin. Firstly I started to get errors saying disklist, > /var/adm/* and /tmp/amanda/* was not readable. I have .amandahosts in /usr/bin > with the neccesary entries so I did not really understand this but I chowned > them to bin anyway. Now when I do a amcheck I get the following: > > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > ----------------------------- > Holding disk /export/dumps/amanda: 9436770 KB disk space available, using > 8924770 KB > ERROR: cannot overwrite active tape SCMS14 > (expecting tape SCMS15 or a new tape) > NOTE: skipping tape-writable test > Server check took 6.083 seconds > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > -------------------------------- > ERROR: localhost: [DUMP does not support exclude file] > Client check: 1 host checked in 0.200 seconds, 1 problem found > > (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3b3) > > I kept all the old database files hence it's expecting scms15 even though I have > not been able done a backup with the updated amdna yet? > > It should be noted that this config just backs up partitions on the localhost. > > I've just noticed that one of my dumps types has an exclude which is: > > exclude "/tmp" > > Is the exclude format different in amanda 2.4.3b3? It should be noted that this > config worked before going to *3b3 so I presume dump can handle excludes. > > > > David Flood > Systems Administrator > The Rober Gordon University > Phone +44(0)1224 262721 > -- Markko
