On Saturday 07 February 2004 19:42, stan wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:50:58PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:05:49PM -0500, stan wrote:
>>
>> [ edited ]
>>
>> > OK, I've comletly broken it at this point in time :-(
>> >
>> > To answer you specific question:
>> >
>> > $ amcheck DailyDump
>> > ....
>> > ERROR: black: [Can't open disk 'ad2s1e']
>> > ERROR: black: [No include for 'ads2e/ak']
>> > ERROR: black: [Can't open disk 'ad1s1e']
>> > ERROR: black: [No include for 'ads1e/ak']
>> >
>> >
>> > and here's the disks on that machine:
>> >
>> > $ df
>> > Filesystem Mounted on
>> > /dev/ad1s1e /usr/local/www/data/WAVS
>> > /dev/ad2s1e /usr/local/www/data/MUSIC
>> >
>> > and gere are teh premissions on one of them:
>> >
>> > $ ls -l /dev/ad2s1e
>> > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 0x00020014 Jan 18 15:12
>> > /dev/ad2s1e
>> >
>> > Yes, Amanda is a ember of the group operator.
>> >
>> > Here's teh dumptype def:
>> >
>> > define dumptype user-tar-no-compress {
>> > program "GNUTAR"
>> > index
>> > compress none
>> > priority medium
>> > }
>>
>> OK, you are using tar which works at the file and directory level,
>> not at the device level. I think you could have specified
>> /dev/ad1s1e and /dev/ad2s1e and amanda would have figured out
>> what the mount point was from the /etc/fstab file or some such.
>>
>> However, why work with devices? Why not the directory names?
>>
>> > Here is what I have in the disklist:
>>
>> black WAVS-kz /usr/local/www/data/WAVS {
>> user-tar-no-compress
>> include "./[!A-K]*"
>> } 2 local
>> black WAVS-ak /usr/local/www/data/WAVS {
>> user-tar-no-compress
>> include "./[A-K]*"
>> } 2 local
>>
>> Wouldn't that be more readable?
>
>And it would make a lot more sense :-( orry, sometimes I fall into
> the trap of thinking the problem is in an areas I don't understand,
> when the problem is stareing me in the face in a place I should
> understand.
>
>Thansk for the help. amcheck is happy with this, and I've already
> run 2 extra "daily" backups today in an atempt to get this working.
> I'll just wait for the normal nightly run, and see waht happens.
>
>I expect this to work, though. Thansk to everyone who have been so
> patient with me on this.
Yes, this should work equally well. Jon often see's things with a bit
more comprehension of the overall picture.
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