On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: > > > And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list". > > > > > > I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern > > > "amanda.exclude". > > > > > > What you want is to exclude any file matching any pattern > > > in the "list of patterns" in amanda.exclude. > > > > So I need to replace the line 'exclude file "amanda.exclude"' with > > > > exclude list "amanda.exclude"? OK - I'll try that. If it works it > > should get me where I wanted to be. > > Exactly. I even do > > exclude list optional ".amanda.exclude" > I made the change and waited hopefully, but it makes no difference:
planner: Incremental of borg:/home bumped to level 5. planner: borg /home 20060511 0 [dump larger than available tape space, 25293759 KB, full dump delayed] > so if I don't need to exclude anything from a DLE, I don't have to create > the empty file. > > > I'd still like to understand, though, why it thought there was not enough > > room. I would have thought that there was plenty, even for a full > > backup? > > Even though there's space on the disk, how big are your vtapes set to be? > I'm guessing less than your directory size. > With the excludes there should be only 6-7GB. Without them there is around 25, as indicated above. The vtapes are 4100Mb each, and spanning was working earlier. I'm about to give up with amanda. I just can't get this sorted. Anne
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