Hi,
We've been using Amanda for sometime to handle our tape back ups, but
have recently encountered an issue. One of our servers has a rather large
home directory that will not fit onto a standard 12gig tape, so for the most
part, we have been attempting to split the dump into two parts for this
drive. The format for the two part dumps in the amanda.conf when working
were slightly different than below, but it was not backing up files
properly, so have attempted the following. What we are trying to do is to
back up the first part of the dump excluding any file or directory starting
with letters a-l, and then on the second dump, backing up files excluding
m-z.
I believe I must have the exclude format incorrect, I was assuming that
/home/[a-l]* would do the trick, but is causing Amanda to produce errors
saying that the dumps failed, and that these two disks are "offline".
define dumptype part1dump {
comment "Delta part 1"
global
priority high
exclude "/home/[a-l]*"
}
define dumptype part2dump {
comment "Delta part 2"
global
priority high
exclude "/home/[m-z]*"
I'm trying to find out the proper way of splitting a dump into two, and have
it work right.
Anyone have any ideas? I was also trying to get amanda.conf to write to 10
tapes instead of 8, and that failed miserably as well. Changing the tape #
from 8 to 10, Amanda would no longer recognize any labelled tapes, and would
keep asking for a "new tape". So I'm back to 8 tapes again.
Thanks,
Tim
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