John,
I tried your scripts and they helped some.
I am not sure if you can help me or not. I had some questions on backing up
Microsoft clients.
We are trying to backup Microsoft clients and we want to exclude some of the
files and directories.
We tried putting the exclude file on the client and on the server and didn't
have any luck.
It did not matter what syntax we used, the files were always backed up.
Have you done anything like this or have any suggestions?
Here is what we are running:
amanda@parody:p0 /home/amanda> amadmin xxxxxxxxx version
build: VERSION="Amanda-2.5.0"
BUILT_DATE="Mon Oct 23 13:56:02 CDT 2000"
BUILT_MACH="FreeBSD parody 4.1.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE #3:
Fri Oct 20 12:21:37 CDT"
amanda@parody:p0 /home/amanda> /usr/local/bin/gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13
Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
smbclient version 2.0.7
Thanks,
William
William Lorfing
System Administrator
VIEO, Inc.
12416 Hymeadow Drive, Suite 200
Austin, TX 78750
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John R. Jackson
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: exclude list format
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>
> I understand you figured out the syntax (congratulations! -- it always
> gives me a headache :-), so the following is just rambling.
>
> >The problem is that even though I am telling it to exclude
> these files AND
> >use tar it still creates the tarball with those directories
> which causes
> >the dump to fail. What is the syntax of the exclude file. ...
>
> FYI, I wrote some scripts to help me figure out and test
> exclude patterns:
>
> ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gtartest-exclude
>
> >Does anyone
> >know of a GOOD place for amanda docs. All I can find says
> use fearture A
> >but gives no way of how to use feature A. For example the
> man page talks
> >about the exclude file but does not cover the format of the
> exclude file.
>
> Have you looked at http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html? There is
> a section in there about exclusion patterns, although I had to fight
> through figuring them out, so make no guarantees they are
> 100% correct.
>
> As to the exclude syntax specifically, why should Amanda document GNU
> tar parameters? If you're having trouble (as many, **many**,
> people do,
> including myself :-) with a feature of GNU tar, it seems to me that's
> the place you should go for documentation.
>
> On the other hand :-), Amanda is a (the) *heavy* user of this feature,
> so it would probably be good to write a docs/EXCLUDE file for release.
> At a minimum, we should at least make it clear that "exclude" maps to
> "--exclude=PATTERN" and "exclude list" maps to
> "--exclude-from=FILE" so
> you could have some hope of finding the right stuff in the
> GNU tar docs.
>
> Any volunteers? (yeah, I thought not :-).
>
> >Why does amcheck not find these errors?
>
> What errors? Amcheck knows nothing about exclusions (although I think
> it will check for the file). Are you asking that it run GNU
> tar and make
> sure doing it with the exclusions and without generates
> different results?
> That would be a bit, shall we say, time consuming.
>
> >Andrew Hall
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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