>Uh, oh. I just realized something from a previous posting. You said
>you saw this:
>
> GNUTAR //winhost/profiles 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 1 exclude-list=/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar
>
>That's not going to work. You're passing an exclusion **file** to do
>a PC (smbclient/smbtar) backup. Samba only supports a single pattern
>("exclude", not "exclude list" in amanda.conf). Which is unfortunate,
>but you'd have to bug the Samba folks about that. Or some Amanda user
>could get ambitious and write up a Samba patch that Amanda could include
>ala what we do for GNU tar 1.12.
not only will it not work, but we don't want it too ;)
the guy who wrote our amanda.conf and disklist (who is now gone)
must not have been paying much attention. in any case, i had
to rewrite the amanda.conf and disklist since there were syntax
changes (i guess) in the newer version (2.4.2p2). the funny
thing is that one of the 'disks' on the backup server insists
on adding an exclude-list in the REQ packet, even though it is
not configured to do so in the dumptype (which it shares with
many other 'disks'), and none of the others do. the file, of
course, doesn't exist. here's 2 (4) adjacent 'disk' requests:
GNUTAR /usr/local/scratch1 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 13 exclude-list=/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar
GNUTAR /usr/local/scratch1 1 2001:7:21:8:47:40 13 exclude-list=/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar
GNUTAR /usr/local/archive 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 13
GNUTAR /usr/local/archive 2 2001:7:19:8:33:29 13
and the disklist lines:
box /usr/local/archive client-comp-fast 13
box /usr/local/scratch1 client-comp-fast 13
and the dumptype:
define dumptype client-comp-fast {
auth BSD
comment "client-comp-fast"
#comprate
compress client fast
#dumpcycle
#exclude
holdingdisk yes
ignore no
index yes
kencrypt no
maxdumps 1
priority medium
program "GNUTAR"
record yes
skip-full no
skip-incr no
strategy standard
}
thanks john (and others!),
-c
______________________________________________________
Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com
It's Free, Easy, & Fun !!!
