Greetings. I've been trying to set up Amanda with the Zmanda Windows
Client (ZWC) for weeks and keep hitting various random problems, and would
*greatly* appreciate help. I'll try to start with a couple of basic
things, in the hopes that the rest are due to some configuration error I've
introduced while trying to fix the initial ones.
(Before everything else, I guess I'll ask: Where are people supposed to go
to get info on Amanda? I've been looking at wiki.zmanda.com for months,
finally found forums.zmanda.com (appears to be read-only even after
registration) and the SourceForge project, but only in the past few days
found the GitHub site--and even amanda.org/about.php says that the source
is on SourceForge! (I tried to look at amanda.org/docs/README.txt to see
if there's more info, but it gave an HTTP 403 error.)
My first (technical) question is: Is it still true that ZWC only supports
the `exclude` and `exclude append` directives, but not the `import` one?
My second question is: is there a way, using planner or something, to get a
preview of what Amanda will back up based on my DLE? Some of my runs are
taking 10+ hours, which is a VERY long time to wait just to get an error at
the end.
My third question is: When I go to check what was actually backed up using
`amrecover`, one of my DLEs frequently reports:
500 "/" is an invalid directory
No index records for cwd on new date
When this happens, the output of `ls` is empty. I have verified that the
host and date match a date from `history` and my dumptype has `index yes`
specified. I believe this output is trying to say that there was no data
backed up from that DLE (perhaps because nothing changed in between
debugging runs) but if a DLE didn't get scheduled (or there were no changes
to be backed up) shouldn't it "superimpose" the results from the last
backup onto the date I've selected? Otherwise, I'd have to keep stepping
backward into every backup run to see when it was actually backed up...what
am I missing?
Thank you for your time,
-Neil
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