Re: exclude list not working on clients.

[Jean-Louis Martineau]

They are on the client machine.

Jean-Louis

Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:

Thanks for replying, Jean-Louis.

I have trouble finding them for the host AND partitions in question.
I can only find the sendbackup.*.debug files for the tape host itself
but not the client machines (none of them).

They should be in /tmp/amanda but they are not (except on the
tape host itslef). Bugger. Need to do some research.

Jobst



-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Louis Martineau <martin...@zmanda.com>
To: Jobst Schmalenbach <jo...@barrett.com.au>
Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org
Subject: Re: exclude list not working on clients.
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:03:21 -0500

Jobst,

What you do looks good, post the sendbackup.*.debug file.

Jean-Louis

Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:

Hi.

I have one client host that refuses to listen to the "exclude list" option in the dumptype. I know it works, for example I backup a 120GB /amanda directory/parition on the tape host that contains the directory holdingdisk, that is excluded in the dumptype:

  define dumptype amandadir {
    global
    exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda_exclude.gtar"
    program "GNUTAR"
  }

and that file contains one line and one line only:

[r...@tapehost /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1] #>cat amanda_exclude.gtar ./holdingdisk

and that [thankfully ;-) ] is not backed up.

So here is what I have (well the important stuff) with regards to the config I have some problems with:

On the amanda tape server in amanda.conf:

  define dumptype sambadir {
      global
      exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/samba_exclude.gtar"
      program "GNUTAR"
  }

On the amanda tape server in disklist (amongst other partitions and hosts):
  ...
  192.168.X.Y /var     standard
  192.168.X.Y /src     standard
  192.168.X.Y /samba   sambadir
  ...

on the client 192.168.X.Y I have a file that is refered to above that contains

  [r...@192.168.x.y /] #>cat /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/samba_exclude.gtar
  ./Shares/Backup
  ./Shares/score_testing
  ./Shares/SharedBinariesWinNT
  ./Shares/SharedBinariesWin2000

Those directories are full of stuff that does not need to be backed up,

but when I look in the gnutar-list directory of that client:

   [r...@192.168.x.y /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists] #>grep "./Shares\/Backup" 
192.168.X.Y_samba_1
   2067 12304757 
./Shares/Backup/Software/DevStudio_SourceCode/VC/SAMPLES/SDK/OLE/INOLE2/CHAP07/PATRON
   2067 11026541 
./Shares/Backup/ServerBackup/SomeStuffPre2008/BCG_CRM_4.5.0d/custom/layout/modules
   2067 278714 
./Shares/Backup/WebsServers/Moja_aug2008/home/sympa5.4.1/expl/productupdates/shared
   2067 246195 ./Shares/Backup/WebsServers/Moja_aug2008/home/sympa/locale/ja
   2067 10896037 
./Shares/Backup/ServerBackup/SomeStuffPre2008/BCG_CRM_4.5.0d/cache/upload/upgrades/temp/k9D2wD/SugarPro-Upgrade-4.0.1-to-4.5.0d/include/ytree/TreeView/css
   2067 10354877 ./Shares/Backup/ServerBackup/Documents/2000_11_31/Assessment 
Services/SPQ
   2067 12370086 
./Shares/Backup/WebsServers/VPS_april2006/localicons_b4_update/Activate2/small
   2067 12763398 
./Shares/Backup/WebsServers/Moja_aug2008/home/httpd/www.activate.com.au/dynamic/HVP_TP/pdf/ask
   2067 11043546 
./Shares/Backup/ServerBackup/SomeStuffPre2008/BCG_CRM_4.5.0d/modules/Studio/wizards
   2067 11405291 ./Shares/Backup/Software/DevStudio_SourceCode/MyProjects/Colin 
Herbert
   2067 10322192 
./Shares/Backup/ServerBackup/Documents/1998_12_31/Z_SystemAdministration/motherboards
   2067 82041 
./Shares/Backup/WebsServers/Moja_aug2008/home/sympa.org.02_04_08/bin/etc
   2067 10797122 
./Shares/Backup/ServerBackup/SomeStuffPre2008/BCG_CRM_4.5.0d/cache/upload/upgrades/patch/SugarPro-Patch-3.5.1b-restore/include
   2067 10715411 
./Shares/Backup/ServerBackup/Documents/2007_and_earlier/Consulting/Proposals/2002/Tender
 Submissions/NESA Aug02


So I am not sure why it does not work, basically it is 50GB of crap I do not 
need
and is only required for "historical purposes".

What am I doing wrong?

Jobst