dump-type exclude list - do I understand this?

2001-10-30 Thread Drew Sanford
I'm needing to know if I understand the exclude list properly. If I define .amanda-excludes as the file to look for on the client machine, and I'm doing a backup of var (hence the file is actually /var/.amanda-excludes) and I don't want to back up /var/log or /var/run, what exactly should my

Failed/strange dump report - newbie question

2001-10-30 Thread Rebecca Pakish
Hi all... I checked the FAQ-o-matic (now that it's up and running again!! Thanks to whomever did that!) and I didn't see anything pertaining to my problem... I'm getting this message in my report: FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- in-db2.unt /var/www lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1]

Re: ERROR amandad busy

2001-10-30 Thread Lynette Bellini
Hi, Just to conclude this thread about linux and dump hanging on a client... dump is waiting for I/O - in my opinion it's a dump issue, not an amanda issue. Try to run dump several times by hand, e.g. dump 0af /dev/null /dev/md2. The results are: root 11659 11177 0

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Re: exlude file not working?

2001-10-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 at 10:26am, Kurt Yoder wrote root@gondwana:/tmp/amanda# cat amandad.20011026140001.debug | grep exclude GNUTAR /var 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;compress-fast;index;exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar; GNUTAR /usr 0 OPTIONS

Re: Failed/strange dump report - newbie question

2001-10-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 at 9:58am, Rebecca Pakish wrote /-- in-db2.unt /var/www lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1] *snip* ? You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory What is the dumpdates file? How do I rectify this? You are using dump -- dump only does incrementals on