I am now running my compiled 3.3.5 amanda on opensuse 13.1 and have reformatted
my disklist. I have difficulties to understand what will be, or what will be
not included. To take an example, i have a directory
/home/charles/pictures. It contains sub-directories for a
few cameras I have/had and a miscellany of smaller directories and
files.
"
charles@fiume:~> du -sk pictures/
18292984 pictures/
du -sk pictures/Canon_800IS/ pictures/Canon_G2
6926988 pictures/Canon_800IS/
6294604 pictures/Canon_G2
"
I wanted to have Canon_G2 and Canon_800IS in a separate DLE and all the
rest in another DLE, which would then become ~7Gb, ~7Gb and 4~Gb large.
In my disklist I have for these 3 DLEs:
"
fiume.localnet Pictures_G2 /home/charles/pictures/Canon_G2 {
#
# pictures in the Canon_G2 directory ~7Gb
#
nocomp-generic
include "./*"
} 2
fiume.localnet Pictures_800IS /home/charles/pictures/Canon_800IS {
#
# pictures in the Canon_800IS directory ~7Gb
#
nocomp-generic
include "./*"
} 2
fiume.localnet Pictures_rest /home/charles/pictures {
#
# all other pictures in the directory
#
nocomp-generic
include "./*"
exclude "./Canon_800IS/*"
exclude "./Canon_G2/*"
} 2
"
My first backup failed (my dds4 tape is too small for a full backup
first time), but when I looked at ..../amanda/dumps/20140216111623/
what was left, I noticed:
"
fiume:/ # ll /work/amanda/dumps/20140216111623/
total 18923752
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:52
fiume.localnet.Pictures_800IS.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:48
fiume.localnet.Pictures_800IS.0.1
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:49
fiume.localnet.Pictures_800IS.0.2
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:50
fiume.localnet.Pictures_800IS.0.3
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:51
fiume.localnet.Pictures_800IS.0.4
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:52
fiume.localnet.Pictures_800IS.0.5
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 650801152 Feb 16 14:52
fiume.localnet.Pictures_800IS.0.6
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:47
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:39
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.1
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:46
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.10
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 473434112 Feb 16 14:47
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.11
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:40
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.2
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:40
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.3
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:41
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.4
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:42
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.5
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:43
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.6
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:44
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.7
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:44
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.8
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Feb 16 14:45
fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest.0.9
"
not very clear in this layout, but fiume.localnet.Pictures_rest alone
totals to more than 11Gb, while it should only have ~4Gb.
Do I not understand the disklist format? What is wrong?
But I have a few more disklist questions:
example 1
fiume.localnet test1 /home/charles {
generic
}
will this include ALL under /home/charles?
example 2
fiume.localnet test2 /home/charles {
generic
include "./*"
}
is this in fact the same as example 1? All under /home/charles will
be included?
example 3
fiume.localnet test2 /home/charles {
generic
include "./big"
}
Will this include all under /home/charles or ONLY all under
/home/charles/big?
The manuals are not very clear, the 3rd parameter ("/home/charles")
is called "diskdevice", but my understanding is that it can be any
point in the file tree of the system. Correct?
Disklist also makes no distinction between different file systems,
I think? For example, in example 2, subdirectory "big" would be
included even if on a different file system (or LV or partion).
Correct?
The 2nd parameter (e.g. "test2") is an arbitrary label, although
it is called "diskname". Correct?
Thanks Charles
--
Charles Stroom
email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.")
