most of our servers have /var on a different partition. I just notice this morning that the content of /var is not being back up, even if /var is listed when I run amrecover.
So I assume that I have to put /var in the disklist ? If yes, since I put a exclude list in /.amanda_excludes, do I need to create an another .amanda_excludes in /var and create a new dumper in amanda.conf ?
You have to specify each partition. If you use gnutar for backup than you can specify subdirectories of a partition.
If you use exclude lists, you can make them global (with an absolute pathname) or local to the directory specified in the DiskListEntry. If they are the same, then you should probably use the full pathname in the exclude statement:
amanda.conf:
define dumptype tar-withexcl {
comp-user-tar
exclude list /.amanda_excludes
}disklist:
my.host.dom / tar-withexcl my.host.dom /var tar-withexcl
The content of the exclude list is still relative, i.e. an entry "./tmp" if you will exclude /tmp and /var/tmp (and the entry "/tmp" will exclude nothing at all).
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