On 25 May 2016, at 19:41, Joi L. Ellis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now, this link into Active Directory has bloated the /var/log/lastlog file up > to something massive, and it’s taking forever to get estimates for dumps from > this machine, to the point that Amanda server gives up with a timeout error. > The actual size of the file is only 52K, but its apparent size is 337G. ... > I’ll just exclude the lastlog file from backups if I have to, but I’d prefer > not to do that. Not a direct answer; we had similar issues (and incompatible versions of the lastog/utmpx/wtmpx files) and it changing leading to in effect it being unreadable on restore; We’ve solved this by excluding it from the backup file - but capturing a textual dump from the file (using last/ac). Dw.
