On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 04:06:26 PM Nathan Stratton Treadway did opine: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:32:25 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > If I have in my excludes file: > > > > ./gene/.gvfs > > > > Then there is no complaint about the lack of access perms in the > > emailed report. > > > > However, from what I understand about the anchoring process, that line > > should also cause /home/gene to be bypassed, and that effectively > > shuts down the reason to do the backup in the first place. > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 21:14:48 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > Nope, the dle is shop /home > > As I understand it, the entire entry in the exclude file has to match > against the path name that tar is processing, so I don't see how > excluding "./gene/.gvfs" would cause anything else under ./gene/ to be > excluded from your backup. > > (Note that the line can match against part of the path name, so that > excluding "*.o" will cause the files like "./gene/myprog.o" to be > excluded from the backup -- but in your case the question is whether the > exclude line "./gene/.gvfs" is a substring of any other paths being > processed during the dump....) > > But perhaps the easy thing to do is let Amanda run with that entry in > place and then check the index file generated for that run on that DLE > and confirm that the other files under your home directory are indeed > listed as expected. > > (Given that the "base" directory of the DLE is "/home", then > "./gene/.gvfs" in the exclude list does seem correct for excluding the > absolute-path "/home/gene/.gvfs" directory from your backup.) > FWIW, I changed the exclude file on one of the clients last night so that it was only ".gvfs", and that seemed to work. No squawking for that client. We'll look at tonight's run after I have changed the other machine. Not much use checking the indice file, its missing anyway because amanda has no perms to access it. What I didn't want was to skip /home/"gene" which contains the most important data to be backed up.
Thanks & Cheers Nathan, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization. -- Alan Coult
