Hi all I have added a new server to my DLE and I need to exclude a few directories from a addition server.
I have in place a exclude list in /usr/local/lib/amanda.exclude.gtar This works for my main backup server (myserver) which acts as the index and tape server. How do I add a entry like ./local/Backups for addition server and exclude I have added ./local/Backups but this didn't prevent it from being excluded. I have the new server in DLE as secondserver.co.co.uk disklist file: # Main Server myserver/ partition backup myserver.cd.co.uk / root-tar # hostname diskname or mountpoint dumptype # mounted as. myserver.co.co.uk /home root-tar # /home myserver.co.co.uk /share root-tar # /share myserver.co.co.uk /projects root-tar # /projects myserver.co.co.uk /backup root-tar # /backup myserver.co.co.uk /tmp root-tar # /tmp myserver.co.co.uk /var root-tar # /var myserver.co.co.uk /data root-tar # /data # Remote backup of secondserver email server secondserver.co.co.uk / root-tar # backup second/ dir and sub dir's exclude.gtar file *.gz.tmp */.netscape/cache */gnutar-lists/*.new */spool/mqueue/?f[A-Z]* #*/tmp/*.errout *pagefile.sys */.thumbnails/* */trader-cache/* */cache/* */.thumbcache/* ./media ./var/tmp ./var/spool/postfix ./var/spool/cups ./dumps ./local/Backups ./tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ./var/lib/imap/proc ./var/lib/imap/socket ./var/lib/ntp/dev ./var/run/.resmgr_socket ./var/run/powersave_socket ./var/run/sasl2/mux ./var/spool/amavis My report produces the following below: /-- ktinga.smt / lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [secondserver.co.co.uk:/ level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -f... - sendbackup: info end | gtar: ./dev/log: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/lib/imap/socket/idle: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/run/.resmgr_socket: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/run/powersave_socket: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/run/sasl2/mux: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/amavis/amavisd.sock: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/anvil: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/bounce: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/bsmtp: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/cyrus: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/defer: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/error: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/ifmail: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/local: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/maildrop: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/procmail: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/proxymap: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/relay: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/smtp: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/smtp-amavis: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/trace: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/uucp: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/verify: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/virtual: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/private/vscan: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/public/cleanup: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/public/flush: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/public/lmtp: socket ignored | gtar: ./local/Backups/var/spool/postfix/public/showq: socket ignored | gtar: ./tmp/.X11-unix/X0: socket ignored | gtar: ./tmp/ssh-ZslLylH562/agent.562: socket ignored | gtar: ./var/lib/imap/socket/idle: socket ignored | gtar: ./var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp: socket ignored | gtar: ./var/lib/ntp/dev/log: socket ignored | gtar: ./var/run/.resmgr_socket: socket ignored | gtar: ./var/run/powersave_socket: socket ignored | gtar: ./var/run/sasl2/mux: socket ignored | gtar: ./var/spool/amavis/amavisd.sock: socket ignored ? gtar: ./var/spool/amavis/amavis-20051003T203006-29040/email.txt: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./var/spool/amavis/amavis-20051003T205856-29174/email.txt: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./var/spool/amavis/amavis-20051003T210218-29184/email.txt: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./var/spool/amavis/amavis-20051003T210655-29259/email.txt: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory | Total bytes written: 3948554240 (3.7GB, 921kB/s) sendbackup: size 3856010 sendbackup: end \-------- Cheers -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. 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