It may be correct but it looks wrong to me. Here is a example of a disklist entry I use for a Snap server:
chena //snap01/development { user-tar exclude "Temporary??Not?Backed?Up??" } This needs to be accompanied by an entry in /etc/amandapass something like: //snap01/development backupuser%password domain On Sunday 24 August 2003 09:03 am, Robin WONG wrote: > Hi > > I am attempting to backup a huge windows partition found on a snap server > via a linux box. At first, I smbmounted the share and backed it up via > this mount method. But I noticed that whether it was doing a level 0 dump > or a level 1 dump, the dumpsize was no different. It was always doing a > level 0 regardless. > > So, I had a look in docs/SAMBA, and I am guessing smbmount doesn't take > into account the 'archive' bit. But when I stat a file on the share, it > appears to return valid information, so I don't see why smbmounting > doesn't work. Anyway... > > Suffice it to say, I can't do a full dump of the snap server every > evening, so I've attempted to use smbclient. However, the disklist entry > I used for smbmounted shares no longer works. Amcheck fails with the > following: > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > -------------------------------- > ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files'] > ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/uz'] > ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files'] > ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/qt'] > ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files'] > ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/mp'] > ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files'] > ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/il'] > ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files'] > ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/eh'] > ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files'] > ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/ad'] > Client check: 7 hosts checked in 2.099 seconds, 12 problems found > > (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4) > > > Here is one of the modified disklist entries I've attempted to use to > backup the snap server: > > snazz /mnt/snap/uz //snapserver/files { > # all directories that start with [u-z] > root-tar > include "./[u-zU-Z]*" > } 1 > > I am running Samba 2.2.3a on RH7.3 with gtar 1.13.25 and AMANDA 2.4.4 > > I can't tell what I am doing wrong...unless there is a disklist entry > limitation for samba shares...or exclude limitation of using tar over > samba. > > > thanks > r > > > -- > god# sed -e 's/windows/unix/g' world.conf > > > -- Stephen Carville ------------------------------------------------------------------ Right wing socialists hate privacy as much as the left wing socialists hate guns.