On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:44:43PM +0200, JC Simonetti wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:26:40 -0400 > Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:30:30AM +0200, S�ren Lannermo wrote: > > > > > > Anyone who knows what this means: > > > > > > [amanda@lex amanda]$ amoverview DailySet > > > bad date .AppleDouble: in .AppleDouble: skipping cruft directory, perhaps > > > > [snip] > > > > > > What is a cruft file/directory? And why should I delete it? > > > > The only time I see "cruft" stuff is in the holding disk. > > > > Hi! > Right. Completely right. > The holding disks belong to Amanda. Well... In fact that's what she > thinks, so whenever she sees something in the holding disks that does > not belong to her, she says "cruft files/directories". Even if the > directory is something like "lost+found" ;) > And prepare to fight with > your teammates, if they have access to the backup server. Because it is > quite hard to explain that there is quite a large free space on a > server (~50GB for me) and that they must not use a single byte from > them... :)
I try to at least keep them out of amanda's dirs on that space. I have 3 holding disk spaces, under /u, /u2, and /w. Each is in a subdir named ".dumps" which is owned by root and only executable by others. Not even read permission. "./.dumps" is excluded in my backups of /u, /u2, and /w. In each of the .dumps dirs is a directory named "amanda", owner/group matching the amanda user and not world accessible. So my holding disks are things like /u2/.dumps/amanda and are relatively difficult to find/get to/use by others :)) I must admit, I once needed a lot of space for a personal application. I went to /u/.dumps as root and made a subdir named "jon" and set its owner/group to "jon/staff". I used it for a week. It was not cruft because it was not under "amanda" but under .dumps. It also was not backed up nightly. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
