Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-27 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 00:20:10 +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: Jean-Louis wrote: It might be a feature/bug with level 1 backup, try a full of /storage. I did, and the dump of /storage did not include files under /storage/lists. So it *might* be a bug with level 1 backup, but in that case it's

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-19 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello all, Just to keep the amount of messages down, I'll respond to several questions at once. Robert wrote: Is tar on the OP system actually GNUTar? On *Linux* systems it generally is, but I am not certain about *commercial* UNIX systems... It is true that 'standard' tar on FreeBSD is

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-18 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 17 May 2012 12:37:24 -0400 amanda-users@amanda.org wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 03:17:32PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: Thu, 17 May 2012 kirjutas Christopher X. Candreva ch...@westnet.com: One file system means just that. Unless /storage/lists is a separate partition mounted at

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/18/2012 12:33 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello Nathan! What exactly happened that convinced you the contents of /storage/lists was still getting included in the dump for /storage ? First I noticed in the e-mail report that level 1 backup of /storage was just a little bit bigger than

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-18 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 07:33:31 +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: First I noticed in the e-mail report that level 1 backup of /storage was just a little bit bigger than level 0 backup of /storage/lists (9703 vs 9120 MB). Then I looked at the index file of /storage DLE on server for that day's amdump

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 17 May 2012, Toomas Aas wrote: I had one big filesystem mounted on /storage which was backed up by a DLE using comp-user-tar dumptype. Yesterday I split out one subdirectory, /storage/lists, into separate partition and added another DLE for /storage/lists, also using comp-user-tar

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-17 Thread Toomas Aas
Thu, 17 May 2012 kirjutas Christopher X. Candreva ch...@westnet.com: One file system means just that. Unless /storage/lists is a separate partition mounted at that point, /storage is one file system, as you say above. You need the explicit exclude. That was exactly my point. Until day before

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 17 May 2012, Toomas Aas wrote: Thu, 17 May 2012 kirjutas Christopher X. Candreva ch...@westnet.com: One file system means just that. Unless /storage/lists is a separate partition mounted at that point, /storage is one file system, as you say above. You need the explicit exclude.

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-17 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:02:51 +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: Tonight's amdump run seems to have backed up the contents of /storage/lists twice, once as /storage/lists DLE and once as part of /storage DLE. I thought that '--one-file-system' flag passed by Amanda to gtar is supposed to prevent

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 03:17:32PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: Thu, 17 May 2012 kirjutas Christopher X. Candreva ch...@westnet.com: One file system means just that. Unless /storage/lists is a separate partition mounted at that point, /storage is one file system, as you say above. You need the

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-17 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello Nathan! What exactly happened that convinced you the contents of /storage/lists was still getting included in the dump for /storage ? First I noticed in the e-mail report that level 1 backup of /storage was just a little bit bigger than level 0 backup of /storage/lists (9703 vs

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-17 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello Jon! Grasping at straws, any chance you also left the original files in the directory lists after copying them to the new partition. After mounting the new partition on /storage/lists they would be masked and would not be accessible using file system semantics. But dump-like programs

GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-16 Thread Toomas Aas
I had one big filesystem mounted on /storage which was backed up by a DLE using comp-user-tar dumptype. Yesterday I split out one subdirectory, /storage/lists, into separate partition and added another DLE for /storage/lists, also using comp-user-tar dumptype. Tonight's amdump run seems to