On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:32:47AM -0400, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote: > I had posted this msg before, but I had given the wrong info. > > I'm backing up / on one of my clients. I would like to exclude > /var/adm/syslog from the backup. > > On my server:amanda.conf, I have defined a disklist entry with "exclude > "./var/adm/syslog"" and I'm using this in my disklist file. > > But it's not working. tar continues to give me an error (actually a failure) > about "/var/adm/syslog: changes as we read it." > > Now, I know this isn't much of a problem. But since my Amanda report gets > mailed out every day to the IT director and the project manager, I'd like to > NUKE this FAILURE message, cuz they think the backup is failing. >
Do you need to backup anything under /var/adm? Maybe exclude the entire directory. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
