Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups
Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just starting out, but I understood that excludes didn't work with samba shares when using GNUTAR. I've been working around that limitation, AFAIK exclude works with samba in 2.4.2 but didn't work in 2.4.1p1. The results of my backups verify this. certainly open to suggestions... if the excludes actually work on samba shares, let me know! As said above they seem to work, but I can use only one expression for exclusion per share; I wasn't successful in trying to exclude more than one expression, neither by exclude-file, nor by a list of expressions. Regards, Lipo -- Roland E. Lipovits Vienna, Austria
Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups
On 5 Dec 2000, Roland E. Lipovits wrote: Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just starting out, but I understood that excludes didn't work with samba shares when using GNUTAR. I've been working around that limitation, AFAIK exclude works with samba in 2.4.2 but didn't work in 2.4.1p1. The results of my backups verify this. Hmmm... Right now I'm using 2.4.1p1 and I'll probably continue using it until 2.4.2 is added to the FreeBSD ports collection. certainly open to suggestions... if the excludes actually work on samba shares, let me know! As said above they seem to work, but I can use only one expression for exclusion per share; I wasn't successful in trying to exclude more than one expression, neither by exclude-file, nor by a list of expressions. That's annoying. If you discover a way to exclude multiple directories, let me know. Then I'll probably make the jump over 2.4.2 at that time. --- Eric Regards, Lipo -- Roland E. Lipovits Vienna, Austria
Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups
I'm just starting out, but I understood that excludes didn't work with samba shares when using GNUTAR. I've been working around that limitation, when possible, by sharing only the directories that need to be backed up. This has obvious flaws, of course. For example, most of the NT systems don't have the hard drives organized to make this simple, so the whole mess gets backed up, including: * NT swap file * Operating system files * web browser caches * application files All of these things are just a waste of time and space to back up. I'm certainly open to suggestions... if the excludes actually work on samba shares, let me know! --- Eric On 5 Dec 2000, Roland E. Lipovits wrote: I'm using samba-backups with an exclude-statement (specified in the disklist-file). As far as I read from the files in /tmp/amanda the exlusion is only used when backuping, not when estimating. Bug or feature? (BTW: amanda-2.4.2) Regards, Lipo -- Roland E. Lipovits Vienna, Austria
Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:08:03AM +0100, Roland E. Lipovits wrote: I'm using samba-backups with an exclude-statement (specified in the disklist-file). As far as I read from the files in /tmp/amanda the exlusion is only used when backuping, not when estimating. Bug or feature? (BTW: amanda-2.4.2) amanda-2.4.2 use the 'du' command of smbclient to get the estimate. This command doesn't understand exclude. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834
