> On Mar 5, 2020, at 4:08 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Greetings all;
>
> One of the things I think amanda needs, is a vtape that can hold the
> maximum level 0 in the disklist. Using that estimate command, I see that
> such is not the case, so amanda is forced to use 2 vtapes on those days.
> So I have 2 or 3 that need further breaking up in order to make them
> actually fit.
>
> However, the first change in the regex I made, generates this string of
> errors:
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> HOST coyote ERROR: DUMP does not support exclude file
> HOST coyote ERROR: DUMP program not available
> HOST coyote ERROR: RESTORE program not available
> HOST coyote ERROR: dump will not be able to create the /etc/dumpdates
> file: Permission denied
> Client check: 5 hosts checked in 3.589 seconds. 4 problems found.
>
> How do I discover which disklist entry or dumptype is responsible?
At the risk of being too simplistic: which entry or dumptype is NOT using tar,
but is using regular DUMP? Did you try to add an exclude file to it?
Only TAR can cope with exclude files.
Or, is TAR not available on node XYZZY so it is defaulting to DUMP?
Deb Baddorf
>
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