Hello all,
Just to keep the amount of messages down, I'll respond to several
questions at once.
Robert wrote:
Is tar on the OP system actually GNUTar? On *Linux* systems it generally
is, but I am not certain about *commercial* UNIX systems...
It is true that 'standard' tar on FreeBSD is BSD tar not GNU tar, but
GNU tar is always installed together with Amanda (as
/usr/local/bin/gtar) and Amanda is configured to use that - the
runtar.*.debug files show that /usr/local/bin/gtar is being launched.
$ /usr/local/bin/gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.22
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Does the disk spec in the disklist file contain wildcards? tar ...
--one-file-system /storage/* will backup both disks (and no others
mounted under them).
Nope, there are no wildcards in the disklist
Nathan wrote:
$ stat -f "%N %d" /storage /storage/<some-file-not-under-lists>
$ stat -f "%N %d" /storage/lists /storage/lists/<some-filename>
Does that in fact show a different device number for the two
different commands (but the same device number for the two files in each
command)?
Yes, it does:
# stat -f "%N %d" /storage /storage/dumps/20120516/test.sql.gz
/storage 111
/storage/dumps/20120516/test.sql.gz 111
# stat -f "%N %d" /storage/lists /storage/lists/bbb
/storage/lists 125
/storage/lists/bbb 125
Do you also back up / on this system, by any chance? If so, that would
seem to show that --one-file-system works some of the time.
Good point that I completely missed! This machine has been in backup
for years, and disklist includes / with comp-root-tar dumptype. I'm
sure I would have noticed if it suddenly would have baced up the
entire machine, not just the 500 MB that are actually in /. None of
the relevant dumptypes have been changed from their defaults in
amanda.conf.
Jean-Louis wrote:
It might be a feature/bug with level 1 backup, try a full of /storage.
I did, and the dump of /storage did not include files under
/storage/lists. So it *might* be a bug with level 1 backup, but in
that case it's strange that it has never affected backup of /, as
indicated by Nathan above.
--
Toomas Aas
