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Jean-Louis
Johan Stuyts wrote:
Hi,
My Amanda backup system has gone live recently. I still have to keep
an eye on it and check if everything is alright. It took a while, but
it was worth the effort.
I use VMWare Server on one of my servers. I get 'strange' results from
this server. I already excluded the memory and disk files (because
each VM has its own Amanda client) of the VMs. Here is some of the output:
...
| gtar: ./var/run/acpid.socket: socket ignored
| gtar: ./var/run/vmnat.4996: socket ignored
| gtar: ./var/run/vmware/proxy-mob: socket ignored
| gtar: ./var/run/vmware/proxy-webserver: socket ignored
? gtar: ./var/run/vmware/hostd-fifo/wqppollWQ3.C282FA0.19a8: Warning:
Cannot stat: No such file or directory
| gtar: ./var/run/vmware/root_0/1290854406892367_2793/ha-nfc-fd:
socket ignored
| gtar: ./var/run/vmware/root_0/1290854406892367_2793/ha-nfcssl-fd:
socket ignored
| gtar: ./var/run/vmware/root_0/1290854406892367_2793/hostd-vmdb-fd:
socket ignored
| gtar: ./var/run/vmware/root_0/1290854602573389_5338/ha-nfc-fd:
socket ignored
| gtar: ./var/run/vmware/root_0/1290854602573389_5338/ha-nfcssl-fd:
socket ignored
...
I am pretty sure I can add '/var/run' and a number of other
directories to the exclude file, but I can't seem to find guidelines
for exclude patterns for the OS and specific applications. Are there
guides/how-tos for exclude patterns and/or backup strategies for
applications?
Kind regards,
Johan Stuyts
