--On Tuesday, September 03, 2002 13:14:45 -0500 Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> With 2.4.3b3 I was getting "MISSING RESULT" errors. the b4 release seems
> to
> have at least fixed that, but it's still not excluding the files/dirs
> listed in the exclude list.
>
> Disklist entry:
>
> homer.sistina.com /home/homer comp-user-tar
>
> Dumptype as follows:
> define dumptype comp-user-tar {
>     user-tar
>          priority medium
>     compress client best
>          exclude file "./amanda.exclude"

   ===============^^^^
Shouldn't that line be:
exclude list "./amanda.exclude"

Frank

> }
>
> ./amanda.exclude on "homer" in /home/homer looks like so:
> ./blutgens
> ./llama
> ./tool
> ./amandahatesme
> ./gnutarisbeingapunk
> ./*/.mozilla/*/*/Cache
>
> The overall size of /home/homer is 37G. My exclude list contains
> directories which make up 66% of that space (I have 20Gb tapes, and was
> going to break it into 3 pieces) in the report where I learn that it's
> failed I see:
>
>
>
> In /tmp/amanda/sendsize on homer I see:
> endsize[5041]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null
> --directory
> /home/homer --one-file-system --listed-incremental
> /etc/amanda/gnutar-lists/homer.sistina.com_home_homer_0.new
> --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
> /tmp/amanda/sendsize._home_homer.20020903112939.exclude .
>
> Which looks odd to me since the file
> /tmp/amanda/sendsize._home_homer.20020903112939.exclude contains only
> "./amanda.exclude"
>
> Which i do not believe would work. Shouldn't the file:
> sendsize._home_homer.20020903112939.exclude e a copy of
> amanda.exclude? or a `cat /path/to/amanda.exclude`
>
> Or am I the only one having a problem with the GNUTAR exclude files?
> --
> Ben Lutgens                            |
> http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/  
> System Administrator   | http://www.sistina.com/
> Sistina Software Inc. |
>
> "If you love something set it free, if it doesn't come back to you
> hunt it down and set it on fire" -- George Carlin



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