In reponse to your question below, /var is not a separate partition or filesystem, it is simply a subdirectory under /.
Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -----Original Message----- From: Oscar Ricardo Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:01 PM To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ./var/adm not being excluded At 11:32 AM 6/12/2002 -0400, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM, you wrote: >I had posted this msg before, but I had given the wrong info. > >I'm backing up / on one of my clients. I would like to exclude >/var/adm/syslog from the backup. > >On my server:amanda.conf, I have defined a disklist entry with "exclude >"./var/adm/syslog"" and I'm using this in my disklist file. > >But it's not working. tar continues to give me an error (actually a failure) >about "/var/adm/syslog: changes as we read it." > >Now, I know this isn't much of a problem. But since my Amanda report gets >mailed out every day to the IT director and the project manager, I'd like to >NUKE this FAILURE message, cuz they think the backup is failing. > >Any help?! Is /var a separate filesystem from / or is it just a directory under /. If it's a different filesystem then you need make your exclude list RELATIVE to the root of the filesystem that you're on. If /var is different then the exclude item should be: ./adm/syslog From amanda.conf: Note that the `full pathname' of a file within its filesystem starts with `./', because of the way amanda runs gnutar: `tar -C $mountpoint -cf - --lots-of-options .' (note the final dot!) Thus, if you're backing up `/usr' with a diskfile entry like ``host /usr gnutar-root', but you don't want to backup /usr/tmp, your exclude list should contain the pattern `./tmp', as this is relative to the `/usr' above. Please refer to the man-page of gnutar for more information. If a relative pathname is specified as the exclude list, it is searched from within the directory that is going to be backed up. Oscar
