Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

2021-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.07.21 um 19:01 schrieb Debra S Baddorf: Using a global exclude list seems to work out fine, so thanks for pointing that out. Enjoy the weekend! Cheers, Kees Yeah - I realized later that you might have meant “leading dot”. I was actually using ./amanda-exclude-file to indicate

Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

2021-07-12 Thread Debra S Baddorf
can share my settings if it help. >> > > The root cause of the errors generated in my case is the FAT32 filesystem not > supporting leading dots in filenames. > > Using a global exclude list seems to work out fine, so thanks for pointing > that out. > > E

Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

2021-07-10 Thread Kees Meijs | Nefos
filesystem not supporting leading dots in filenames. Using a global exclude list seems to work out fine, so thanks for pointing that out. Enjoy the weekend! Cheers, Kees

Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

2021-07-09 Thread Jose M Calhariz
Hi, I am using a .amanda-exclude.list per DLE on the top of it and is not broken for me. I can share my settings if it help. Kind regards Jose M Calhariz On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 05:13:19PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > On the other hand: I also used .amanda-exclude-list > at t

Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

2021-07-09 Thread Debra S Baddorf
On the other hand: I also used .amanda-exclude-list at the top of any DLE that needed an exclude list. However, they broke a few years ago. I don’t know if that was my version of Linux or my version of amanda. So trying a globalized version is a good idea. Deb Baddorf Fermilab > On

Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

2021-07-09 Thread Kees Meijs | Nefos
-tar-var { comp-root-tar comment "Root partitions with compression, special for /var" exclude list "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/excludes.var" } Well that's easy: I was under the impression one must have a excludes file per DLE. I was wrong. I'm no expert on UEF

Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

2021-07-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 12:05:52 +0200 Kees Meijs | Nefos wrote: > Using Amanda 3.5.1-2+b2 (Debian) I've configured: > > > exclude list optional    ".amanda-excludes.gtar" I wonder why you put the excludes file in with the stuff being backed up? I usually put my excludes f

Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

2021-07-09 Thread Kees Meijs | Nefos
Hi list, In danger of asking something that has been asked before (yes, I did try some search engines)... Using Amanda 3.5.1-2+b2 (Debian) I've configured: exclude list optional    ".amanda-excludes.gtar" When making back-ups of UEFI capable hosts the back-up reports back

Re: ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-07-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Here's some more info: The reason why ZWC is not excluding the files is because of the way exclude pattern is specified. Following are my test results: ZWC 3.1.1 rev 22762 ZMC 3.1.1 rev 22752 1. Correct exclude pattern (Added using ZMC):

Re: ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-07-01 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: 1. Correct exclude pattern (Added using ZMC): * 192.168.15.217 C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/My Music C:/Documents and

ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hi all, I'm here again with another ZWC-exclude list issue. This paste (http://pastebin.mozilla.org/743992) shows a DLE for a ZWC client and a listing of the resulting dump. This configuration is setup with the sole purpose of testing the ZWC and exclude lists. As you can see, the exclude list

Re: ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Nighswonger
http://pastebin.mozilla.org/744016 Updated to include a bit more information. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: Hi all, I'm here again with another ZWC-exclude list issue. This paste (http://pastebin.mozilla.org/743992) shows a DLE

Re: ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Nighswonger
currently in internal testing that might improve the situation.  It should be ready in a few days.  Send another email if you don't hear anything about it soon? Ok. I did find some further info in the wiki which indicated that the ZWC requires the full path for each entry in the exclude list. I did

Re: ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-06-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: So... am I missing something that I don't know about or is this a bug? Replying on Paddy's behalf: There's a 3.1.1 that's currently in internal testing that might improve the situation. It should be ready

Re: ZWC and exclude list question (another one)

2010-06-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: So is the only way to do this to have a dumptype setup using 'exclude' and 'exclude append' to catch each of potentially 300 some multimedia file extensions? This would mean 300 some 'exclude'/'exclude

Re: ZWC and exclude list question (another one)

2010-06-24 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: So is the only way to do this to have a dumptype setup using 'exclude' and 'exclude append' to catch each of potentially 300 some

ZWC and exclude list question (another one)

2010-06-23 Thread Chris Nighswonger
I'm wanting to exclude from my user's Windows clients all multimedia files. I plan to use regexps to match file extensions (ie. ./*.mp3 and so forth). It is my understanding that ZWC does not respect exclude lists stored on the client. So is the only way to do this to have a dumptype setup using

Re: exclude list not working on clients.

2010-03-01 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Martineau martin...@zmanda.com To: Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.au Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: exclude list not working on clients. Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:03:21 -0500 Jobst, What you do looks good, post the sendbackup.*.debug file. Jean-Louis Jobst Schmalenbach

exclude list not working on clients.

2010-02-26 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Hi. I have one client host that refuses to listen to the exclude list option in the dumptype. I know it works, for example I backup a 120GB /amanda directory/parition on the tape host that contains the directory holdingdisk, that is excluded in the dumptype: define dumptype amandadir

Re: exclude list not working on clients.

2010-02-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jobst, What you do looks good, post the sendbackup.*.debug file. Jean-Louis Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Hi. I have one client host that refuses to listen to the exclude list option in the dumptype. I know it works, for example I backup a 120GB /amanda directory/parition on the tape host

Re: exclude list not working on clients.

2010-02-26 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
). Bugger. Need to do some research. Jobst -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com To: Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.au Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: exclude list not working on clients. Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:03:21 -0500 Jobst, What you do

Re: exclude list not working on clients.

2010-02-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
). They should be in /tmp/amanda but they are not (except on the tape host itslef). Bugger. Need to do some research. Jobst -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com To: Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.au Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: exclude list

Re: Exclude list entries

2006-07-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
Gee, can we be sure of anything with gnutar ;) I have that small project in my mind that would do a tar cv and a tar cv --exclude-from and compare both output. I will do that when I have a day free :) Olivier

Re: Exclude list entries

2006-07-14 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Thanks for your replies. I could have phrased my question slightly better. I want to know what the exclude list should look like to make sure I exclude all files with these extensions in any directory/subdirectory contained under the disklist entries: .ora .dbf .dmp .dmp.gz.xx If I

Re: Exclude list entries

2006-07-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
I want to know what the exclude list should look like to make sure I exclude all files with these extensions in any directory/subdirectory contained under the disklist entries: .ora .dbf .dmp .dmp.gz.xx It seems that the safest way is: *.ora *.dbf *.dmp *.dmp.gz.* without the initial

Re: Exclude list entries

2006-07-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 04:41:37PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: I want to know what the exclude list should look like to make sure I exclude all files with these extensions in any directory/subdirectory contained under the disklist entries: .ora .dbf .dmp .dmp.gz.xx It seems

Re: Exclude list entries

2006-07-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:54:07AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: No there really is a difference between excluding /foo, ./foo, and foo. As you are backing up ., /foo will not match anything. Of course ./foo will match any foo in the top level directory . foo will match any foo in any

Exclude list entries

2006-07-13 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
to confirm whether or not I could have used the entries without ./ and what the difference between the different sets of entries would be. Thanks very much. Joe -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Exclude-list-entries-tf1936459.html#a5305717 Sent from the Amanda - Users forum

Re: Exclude list entries

2006-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
, in any subdirectory that you are backuping. The exclude list is handed as-is to gnu-tar, so one way to make sure it does what you want is to try it with gnu-tar manually. Best regards, Olivier

Re: Exclude list entries

2006-07-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
directory . foo will match any foo in any directory under . The exclude list is handed as-is to gnu-tar, so one way to make sure it does what you want is to try it with gnu-tar manually. and it is fast if you do it to /dev/null, as in gtar cvf /dev/null -exclude 'whatever' . -- Jon H. LaBadie

Exclude list and tar on SUSE OES.

2005-10-19 Thread Owen Williams
Hello, I've been struggling with this for a while. I have this defined in lots of places now: exclude list /usr/local/amanda/exclude.conf e.g. define dumptype root-tar { global program GNUTAR comment root partitions dumped with tar compress none index exclude

Re: Exclude list and tar on SUSE OES.

2005-10-19 Thread Bert_De_Ridder
Kleinhoefstraat 5 B-2440 Geel Tel: +32 14 57.00.90 Fax: +32 14 58.13.25 http://www.peopleware.be http://www.mobileware.be Owen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19/10/2005 12:21 To amanda-users@amanda.org cc Subject Exclude list and tar on SUSE OES. Hello, I've

Re: Exclude list and tar on SUSE OES.

2005-10-19 Thread Owen Williams
Bert, You did put the exclude file on the client, didn't you ? http://www.amanda.org/docs/exclude.html#id2533384 Thanks, but yes. Owen. -- Owen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work0116 2506349 Home0116 2259109 Mobile 0771 5790631 Senior Computing Officer | Software Engineer Consultant

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Graeme Humphries wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 18:34 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: After reading all that thread I have to ask: Do you all agree with me editing the man-page as Jon suggested? It seems reasonable to me. Edited and committed to the xml-docs-cvs. -- Stefan G.

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:14:19PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Amanda will not complain - if the exclude file on the client is not there at all In this case amanda can construct a gtar argument list that does not contain the exclude list of a non-existing file

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
. And the exclude list file building is done as user amanda, without suid root at that time. But even in that case, I believe this should flag an error, as implemented currently, otherwise the user would believe he created an exclude file, while amanda silently ignores it because she cannot read

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: amanda cannot do an suid root if it was built as root, no way around it due to the failure of the suid command if its already owned by root. Certainly, but I don't think the Debian packages were built as root. I just choose to run amdump

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:01 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: BTW, is it just amcheck, or amdump as well, that does or does not complain? In my experience it's only been amcheck that complains, amdump is still happy to do the backups, so this confusion hasn't been critical. ;) -- Graeme Humphries

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
the backups, so this confusion hasn't been critical. ;) Then even more important to have amcheck complain. There could be an existing, but unreachable or unreadable, exclude list file that based on amdump reports and logs would appear to be functional but in fact was not. -- Jon H. LaBadie

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: Seems to me the only thing that needs changing is the amanda.conf man page. Currently it says: ... With exclude list, the string is a file name on the client containing GNU-tar exclude expressions. ... If optional is specified for exclude list, then amcheck

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 18:34 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: After reading all that thread I have to ask: Do you all agree with me editing the man-page as Jon suggested? It seems reasonable to me.

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 11:31, Graeme Humphries wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: amanda cannot do an suid root if it was built as root, no way around it due to the failure of the suid command if its already owned by root. Certainly, but I don't think the Debian

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 13:59 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I think this is going to be problematic, Graeme. But I'll defer to someone who is a bit more cognizant of the actual code. I do know that I cannot run either amcheck or amdump here as root, the exit, complaining about it, is instant

exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Graeme Humphries
I've just added exclude lists as per the examples in the online documentation, with the following configuration: exclude list optional .amanda.excludes However, amcheck now complains on every item in the disklist for a *single* host, that it [Can't open exclude file '/filepath' : Permission

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Graeme Humphries wrote: I've just added exclude lists as per the examples in the online documentation, with the following configuration: exclude list optional .amanda.excludes However, amcheck now complains on every item in the disklist for a *single* host, that it [Can't open exclude file

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, July 05, 2005 09:51:36 -0600 Graeme Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just added exclude lists as per the examples in the online documentation, with the following configuration: exclude list optional .amanda.excludes However, amcheck now complains on every item

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Graeme Humphries
shares, which only root should be able to have full access to. 'optional' just means it's ok to not be there, but 'permission denied' is an error and Amanda reports it as such. That's not what the online man page seems to say: If optional is specified for exclude list, then amcheck

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Graeme Humphries
setting exclude list optional ./.amanda.excludes Hmmm, would that really make a difference? Given a disklist entry like /files/share, wouldn't that just cause it to look for /files/share/./.amanda.excludes? The optional means that the existence of the file is optional, not its accessibility

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Frank Smith
for exclude list, then amcheck will not complain if the file doesn't exist or is not readable. The file is not readable (permission denied entering the directory that contains is). Maybe it only checks for permission problems on the exact file, and not on containing directories? In my experience

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Graeme Humphries
ignored if the optional keyword is used. Is there a situation where we *would* want it to hard error out on an optional exclude list if it can't get into the directory the exclude list is supposed to be in? Graeme

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
is used. Is there a situation where we *would* want it to hard error out on an optional exclude list if it can't get into the directory the exclude list is supposed to be in? I'd have to peek at the docs/source to be certain of this, but I haven't done so. While runtar is setuid root, I don't

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:50 -0500, Frank Smith wrote: You can do what I do, just ignore the errors from amcheck that you know are bogus. That's probably what I'll end up doing, but I know that for me it's generally bad practice, because it means that eventually I'll just stop paying attention

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Graeme Humphries
Title: Re: exclude list optional not working? On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 23:14 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: - or if the file is not readable: in that case amanda trusts the suid-root runtar executable so that gnutar can read the contents of the file, never mind the permissions. But Amanda does

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Graeme Humphries
Title: Re: exclude list optional not working? On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:34 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: If there were no exclude file, then the admin can reasonably feel that it is not contributing to the list of excluded file. Thus no error on setting optional is reasonable. But what about

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Graeme Humphries wrote: I'd rather just have any permission related error ignored if the optional keyword is used. Is there a situation where we *would* want it to hard error out on an optional exclude list if it can't get into the directory the exclude list is supposed to be in? Amanda

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
with using it, a full path to the excludes file was needed, such as /amanda/.amanda-excludes. 'optional' just means it's ok to not be there, but 'permission denied' is an error and Amanda reports it as such. That's not what the online man page seems to say: If optional is specified for exclude

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
error out on an optional exclude list if it can't get into the directory the exclude list is supposed to be in? Graeme -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, July 05, 2005 15:20:15 -0600 Graeme Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 23:14 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: - or if the file is not readable: in that case amanda trusts the suid-root runtar executable so that gnutar can read the contents of the file,

Re: Exclude list and disklist

2005-04-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
are overwritten. as exclude list, if some users update me that some directories in their home are not supposed to be backup, but it was backup before. Does the next amdump run redo the dump not to include that directory or only only when it detects more changes in that directory? Would it exclude

Re: Exclude list and disklist

2005-04-21 Thread Kuas
of the absolute path to the exclude file, but just the name of the file: exclude list exclude.list So each user needs to create this file and has full authority to change it. The effect I saw (from amcheck) is that it will try to find that the file in each of the DLE that uses that dumptype

Re: Exclude list and disklist

2005-04-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
of the absolute path to the exclude file, but just the name of the file: exclude list exclude.list So each user needs to create this file and has full authority to change it. The effect I saw (from amcheck) is that it will try to find that the file in each of the DLE that uses that dumptype

Re: Exclude list and disklist

2005-04-21 Thread Matt Hyclak
in the backup process. From the howto and some trial I can specify in the dumptype, instead of the absolute path to the exclude file, but just the name of the file: exclude list exclude.list So each user needs to create this file and has full authority to change it. The effect I saw (from amcheck

Exclude list syntax.

2005-03-08 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Is it possible to use todays date as element in a filename in an exclude list? -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen

Re: Exclude list syntax.

2005-03-08 Thread Michael Loftis
exclude list syntax depends on your dump/tar/smbtar...usually, no. All you get is wildcards pretty much. --On Tuesday, March 08, 2005 22:09 +0100 Erik P. Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use todays date as element in a filename in an exclude list? -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen

Re: Exclude list syntax.

2005-03-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:09:04PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Is it possible to use todays date as element in a filename in an exclude list? You can have multiple exclude statements, IIRC, at most one can omit the append argument. Given that, you could have one exclude statement read a file

Re: Exclude list syntax.

2005-03-08 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:13 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:09:04PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Is it possible to use todays date as element in a filename in an exclude list? You can have multiple exclude statements, IIRC, at most one can omit the append argument

samba does not support exclude list

2004-08-19 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi I have enabled the exclude list on the amanda.conf file and i am backing up windows folders through samba. My Dumptype is define dumptype root-tar { global program GNUTAR comment root partitions dumped with tar compress none index exclude list /usr/local/etc/amanda

Re: samba does not support exclude list

2004-08-19 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, amanda told you the problem: samba does not support a exclude list in conjunction with amanda. for backups using samba you can only define a single file to exclude. The used client does not support more than one file to exclude, nor does it support exclude-lists. Christoph Kaushal Shriyan

Re: samba does not support exclude list

2004-08-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Can any one help me in fixing the below error ... ERROR: indus.mumbai.redhat.com: [samba does not support exclude list] Means you cannot use exclude list with samba. (you may exclude one file, not a list of files). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel

Re: amrecover performance and exclude list

2003-08-26 Thread Pascal Robert
. You're limited by the functionality of those programs. Or does dump on your system allow excludes?) Ok, I switched to 'tar' dumps, added this directive to amanda.conf: exclude list /var/lib/amanda/.amanda_excludes And on each client, I created this file. But even if I put stuff

Re: amrecover performance and exclude list

2003-08-26 Thread C.Scheeder
Hi, youl have to put relative paths in exclude list. example: mount-point/dir-to-backup is: /var file to exclude:/var/tmp/example-file entry in file: ./tmp/example-file Christoph Pascal Robert wrote: I have two questions for you: 1) any owners of HP SureStore

amrecover performance and exclude list

2003-08-22 Thread Pascal Robert
list .amanda_excludes in amanda.conf. But those directories are still being back up. This is my dumptype definition: define dumptype hard-disk-compress { global comment Back up to hard disk instead of tape - using dump holdingdisk no index yes priority high compress client fast exclude list

Re: amrecover performance and exclude list

2003-08-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
of tape - using dump strange comment, when you first ask if the DLT drive is fast enough :-) holdingdisk no index yes priority high compress client fast exclude list .amanda_excludes } -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001

Re: amrecover performance and exclude list

2003-08-22 Thread Pascal Robert
Paul Bijnens wrote: Pascal Robert wrote: I have two questions for you: 1) any owners of HP SureStore DLT vs80 unit here ? If yes, what kind of performance do you have with amrecover. I did a recover this morning, it took 67 minutes to recover a single 2 bytes file. The backup take 7

exclude list optional broken?

2003-06-06 Thread Josef Wolf
Hallo! The amanda man page states that the exclude list can be optional. So I defined following dumtype: define dumptype my-global { comp-user-tar exclude list optional .amanda.exclude.gtar include list optional .amanda.include.gtar } But unfortunately, with this definition

Re: exclude list optional broken?

2003-06-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
Josef Wolf wrote: define dumptype my-global { comp-user-tar exclude list optional .amanda.exclude.gtar include list optional .amanda.include.gtar } But unfortunately, with this definition all the backups just fail on _all_ filesystems. Even those which actually contain

Upgrading to 2.4.4: amcheck complains about samba exclude list

2003-03-19 Thread Fabio Corazza
amcheck complaining about the samba exclude list support. I've never heard this before... but it would be annoying recompiling ALSO Samba from source just to include a feature I don't need. Can anybody explain me what this error means? uranus:/usr/src/amanda-2.4.4# su backup -c /usr/sbin/amcheck

Re: Upgrading to 2.4.4: amcheck complains about samba exclude list

2003-03-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 at 4:22pm, Fabio Corazza wrote Can anybody explain me what this error means? *snip* Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: uranus.prosa.com: [samba does not support exclude list] *snip* It means what it says. In your dumptype, you have

Re: Upgrading to 2.4.4: amcheck complains about samba exclude list

2003-03-19 Thread Fabio Corazza
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 at 4:22pm, Fabio Corazza wrote Can anybody explain me what this error means? *snip* Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: uranus.prosa.com: [samba does not support exclude list] *snip* It means what it says

Re: Easy exclude list question

2003-01-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:08:36PM -0500, Chris Dahn wrote: Does the exclude list go on the server, client, or both? From amanda_src_dir/docs/EXCLUDE: ** Utilize an Exclude List ** An exclude list is a file that resides on the CLIENT machine and contains paths to be excluded

Include and Exclude list

2002-12-26 Thread Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible to setup in include list like so ./NL-SFS3-02[4-9] ./NL-SFS3-03[0-2] And only include these directories meaning if they aren't any fo these directories don'ttry to back them up. Craig Hancock

Re: pb with large dump exclude list

2002-10-22 Thread Brunet Eric
are you sure of this functionnality, because I tested the 2.4.3 with multiple same disklist entry, like this: 80.65.xxx.yyy /home/test comp-user-tar-incr-adherent_a 80.65.xxx.yyy /home/test comp-user-tar-incr-adherent_b (only excluding rule change in these 2 dumptypes) but I

Re: pb with large dump exclude list (SOLVED)

2002-10-22 Thread Brunet Eric
ok sorry, I found the example in example/disklist it work fine :) howener, I have noticed that server AND client machine must be in 2.4.3 version. Brunet Eric wrote: are you sure of this functionnality, because I tested the 2.4.3 with multiple same disklist entry, like this: 80.65.xxx.yyy

pb with large dump exclude list

2002-10-17 Thread Brunet Eric
hello, I've been using amanda for one year, but now i have to save a large directory(composed of a lot of subdirs) ( 10GB today). At the beginning all worked fine(full and incremental dump) report example: 80.65.xxx.xxx -e/adherent 0 10150780 9724672 95.8 91:50 1765.0 N/A N/A Now the full

Re: pb with large dump exclude list

2002-10-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello Eric, On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:59:14PM +0200, Brunet Eric wrote: I tested with a wildcard file path and all worked fine; my idea was to simulate hash dirs with the exclude option: ./[b-zB-Z]* - exclude which takes only subdirs begins by 'B' or 'b' But when I applied these dumptypes

Re: pb with large dump exclude list

2002-10-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:42:13PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hello Eric, On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:59:14PM +0200, Brunet Eric wrote: I tested with a wildcard file path and all worked fine; my idea was to simulate hash dirs with the exclude option: ./[b-zB-Z]* - exclude which

Re: pb with large dump exclude list

2002-10-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:00:08PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:42:13PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hello Eric, On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:59:14PM +0200, Brunet Eric wrote: I tested with a wildcard file path and all worked fine; my idea was to simulate

exclude list problems (PEBKAC?)

2002-10-11 Thread pointer
for no-mirror-tar: SNIP amanda.conf snippet define dumptype no-mirror-tar { global program GNUTAR compress client fast comment usr partitions dumped with tar exclude list .amanda-exclude.gtar priority medium } SNIP The global config only has a comment and 'index

Re: exclude list problems (PEBKAC?)

2002-10-11 Thread Frank Smith
: SNIP disklist snippet client /usr no-mirror-tar SNIP Here's the def for no-mirror-tar: SNIP amanda.conf snippet define dumptype no-mirror-tar { global program GNUTAR compress client fast comment usr partitions dumped with tar exclude list .amanda

Re: exclude list problems (PEBKAC?)

2002-10-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:26:58AM -0500, pointer wrote: I've checked the docs/FAQ/google/archives and I must be missing something really simple. :\ I have an amanda client that I'm backing having problems backing up. We're using tar for /usr on this client: SNIP /--

Re: exclude list problems (PEBKAC?)

2002-10-11 Thread pointer
Frank, On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:50, Frank Smith wrote: Your config looks correct to me. What does '/usr/local/bin/tar --version' show? SNIP $ /usr/local/bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13 Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free

Re: exclude list problems (PEBKAC?)

2002-10-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 11 Oct 2002 at 11:58am, pointer wrote On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:50, Frank Smith wrote: Your config looks correct to me. What does '/usr/local/bin/tar --version' show? SNIP $ /usr/local/bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13 Bad. Bad bad bad. If you're using indexing,

Re: exclude list problems (PEBKAC?)

2002-10-11 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, October 11, 2002 11:58:27 -0500 pointer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank, On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:50, Frank Smith wrote: Your config looks correct to me. What does '/usr/local/bin/tar --version' show? SNIP $ /usr/local/bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13

Re: exclude list problems (PEBKAC?)

2002-10-11 Thread pointer
Joshua, On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:50, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Bad. Bad bad bad. If you're using indexing, they're broken. amrecover won't work. Run, don't walk, to download 1.13.25 from ftp://alpha.gnu.org. Thanks for the heads-up. I'd seen this, but hadn't gotten around to updating

Re: exclude list problems (PEBKAC?)

2002-10-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:58, Frank Smith wrote: --On Friday, October 11, 2002 11:58:27 -0500 pointer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank, On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:50, Frank Smith wrote: Your config looks correct to me. What does '/usr/local/bin/tar --version' show? SNIP $

Re: exclude list problems (PEBKAC?)

2002-10-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 October 2002 14:04, pointer wrote: Joshua, On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:50, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Bad. Bad bad bad. If you're using indexing, they're broken. amrecover won't work. Run, don't walk, to download 1.13.25 from ftp://alpha.gnu.org. Thanks for the heads-up. I'd

Re: exclude list problems (PEBKAC?)

2002-10-11 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, October 11, 2002 15:11:00 -0400 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 October 2002 12:58, Frank Smith wrote: Possible unrelated problem for you: does anyone on the list remember if tar 1.13 was one of the versions with the bad index file problem (the infamous 'big

Re: WangDAT 3400DX DDS2-120m tapetype (was: Re: [amanda 2.4.2p2] tar exclude list not working)

2002-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 01:46, Martin Schwarz wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:44:35AM +0200, Martin Schwarz wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 04:00:31PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: The above looks as if you have the drives compression turned on, I have, although I should know better

WangDAT 3400DX DDS2-120m tapetype (was: Re: [amanda 2.4.2p2] tar exclude list not working)

2002-09-24 Thread Martin Schwarz
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:44:35AM +0200, Martin Schwarz wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 04:00:31PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: The above looks as if you have the drives compression turned on, I have, although I should know better about this - having read the list for a while. Somehow I

Re: [amanda 2.4.2p2] tar exclude list not working

2002-09-22 Thread Martin Schwarz
Hello Gene, On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 04:00:31PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: The above looks as if you have the drives compression turned on, I have, although I should know better about this - having read the list for a while. Somehow I never thought about my own setup when reading about the

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