On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 at 8:21pm, James Marcinek wrote > > > You just put the directory name in place of the device, e.g. > > > > domino / $DUMPTYPE > > OK but if it's the / partion, will it also try to backup the other filesystems > (such /var, /usr, etc) or do I have to define an exclusion list? The examples
No, it won't. When using tar, amanda calls it with the "--one-file-system" flag. > I've patterned the diskfile showed somthing like the example: > > "fatboy /bigmama_BIGDIR /bigmama { # a big subdirectory > comp-user-tar > include "./bigdir" > }" > > In this example the $DUMPTYPE is called /bigmama? If I'm not mistaken it looks > like the definition of the dumptype (in this case /bigmama)is called afterward. > Tell me if I'm interpreting this wrong please. So I could call the dumptype > whatever I like? No. Look in the amanda(8) man page for an explanation of all the fields in a disklist entry (DLE). In your example above, the optional field "diskdevice" (/bigmama) is used. If it's not used (as in my example) then it's assumed to be the same as the "diskname", which is / in my example and /bigmama_BIGDIR in yours. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University