On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:51:22AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > exclude doesn't works amstar.
Ok, good to know its not just me. I take it that by default amstar will allow the estimates/dumps to cross file system boundries ? > Jean-Louis > > Brian Cuttler wrote: > >Amanda Users, > >Dustin, > > > >We are using amanda 2.6.1p1 on a Solaris 10x86 system with ZFS snapshots. > > > >We where aware that one of the file systems was too large to fit > >on a single tape volume, even though it was an LTO4 tape. > > > >This is the disklist entry. We seem to be backing up the > >contents of the subdirectory. Perhaps I have the exclude > >coded incorrectly ? Perhaps exclude with Schily, star, is > >not working as expected. > > > >[Skipping digression on why we switched from gtar to star for this DLE] > > > >cascade /cascadep/export/ghost /cascadep/export/ghost { > > nocomp-user-zfs-amstar > > exclude "./[ghost-archive]*" > > } > > > >Rather than using split size, we thought to move the ghost-archive > >subdirectory to a separate mount point, I know that gtar would not > >(by default) cross file system boundries. > > > >star seems to be trying to cross that boundry, at least for the > >estimate phase if not the actual backup phase. > > > >NOTES: > > planner: disk cascade:/cascadep/export/ghost, full dump (951917180KB) > > will be larger than available tape space, you could define a splitsize > > planner: cascade /cascadep/export/ghost 20100602183000 0 "[dump larger > > than available tape space, 951917180 KB, full dump delayed]" > > > >(brought to you by Amanda version 2.6.1p1) > > > >Please help me to set the switches correctly so that we can successfully > >backup the ghost directory without backing up the ghost-archive > >subdirectory. > > > > thanks, > > > > Brian > >--- > > Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org > > Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 > > Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 > > NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 > > > > > > > >IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain > >confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally > >privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It > >is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or > >from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not > >distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the > >sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your > >system. Thank you for your cooperation. > > > > > > > --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.