Hi, Bob, on July, 24th 2003 at 19:55 you wrote to amanda-users:
BZ> I was hoping to use include or exclude options of gnutar but samba will not really play well in BZ> this game. I tried to divide the large shared drive into directories using the include option in BZ> both the disklist and in the dumptypes. Samba complains about this and gives error messages and BZ> quits. Then I tried using exclude. Samba will be ok with this option as long as you just exclude BZ> only one file or directory. This is not a good option either as I have many files or patterns I BZ> want to exclude (i.e.,./pagefile.sys, */*.tmp, or */*.zip). AFAIK, you can use multiple exclude-lines in a dumptype using Samba. It just doesn�t like or accept exclude-lists. Jon (H. LaBadie) wrote the following earlier this year: "smbclient will take multiple files to exclude on the command line, but not a file argument listing files to exclude. So it was necessary to take the list and convert it into command line arguments." Read his full posting under (for example) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/41819. After I read that I just implemented something like that in a customers amanda.conf today. Like: define dumptype hugedisk { program "GNUTAR" exclude "./pagefile.sys" exclude "*/*.tmp" exclude "*/*.zip" < other options here ... > } Amcheck (2.4.4p1) returned no errors, I will see if it worked after the next amdump tonight. BZ> So, I thought of installing cygwin on this W2K machine with amanda client and BZ> trying this configuration. I am working through this implementation currently BZ> and am having some problems (I did get BZ> the host server to talk to the w2k, cygwin, amanda client machine, but had to BZ> stop at this point and got pulled off onto another project). My thought was I BZ> could at least bypass Samba and just BZ> use gnutar to backup the W2K client machine using exclude lists or files. Has BZ> anyone done this or something similar? Another idea would be to smbmount your windows-share to the backup-host and GnuTar it right from there. Haven�t tried that by myself, but read about that idea on the list. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
