On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:25:31AM +0200, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: > > Hi there. I backup a system, and I notice that it complains about 'unusual > or strange backup result' during the email. These are files I forgot to > exclude; things like logs, that change during the backup. > So, I added them to /etc/exclude.gtar which is defined properly in > amanda.conf in 'server-tar', the exclude.gtar is stored at the client, and > I am running the client as root (so that it has access to everything), and > amcheck shows no problems. yet, every day I keep getting complaints about > the same files; like ./apache/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/sessions/blah has > changed. well, in exclude.gtar I have: > ./apache/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/sessions > and I assumed that this should have stopped everything under 'sessions' > from being backed up? > > I checked the wording, in fact, I did cut/paste from the error emails. > I'm obviously missing something! Can anyone help?
Questions and a possible theory. 1. Is the file "/etc/exclude.gtar" mentioned in your amanda.conf with an 'exclude list' or an 'exclude file'? 2. Are any files in /etc/exclude.gtar being excluded? 3. Might your session/* files still being excluded despite the strange messages? I.e. are they listed in the index files? My reason for question 3 relates to my theory. Not knowing the gnutar code, I wonder if it might first notice the change in the file, print its stderr message, and later realize it was a file to be excluded and not backup the file anyway? Just musing! -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)