I am using the Amanda 2.5.0p2 client on a MacOSX (matching a Amanda 2.5.0p2 server on a CentOS 5.11 system) and have it set up to use GnuTAR for backup on the Mac (a MacMini). This works OK, but there are some weirdnesses:
The incremental backups (level > 0) are just about as large as the level 0 backups. Why is this? Is there something I could/should do special? I built the Amanda 2.5.0p2 client from source on the Mac. It has GnuTAR 1.17 installed: frodo.deepsoft.com% gnutar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.17 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Modified to support extended attributes. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. The MacOSX version is (I think 10.6 or 10.7): frodo.deepsoft.com% uname -a Darwin frodo.deepsoft.com 11.4.2 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:26:45 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 The disklist section looks like this: # Frodo frodo / comp-user-span-tar 4 frodo /Applications comp-user-span-tar 4 frodo /Library comp-user-span-tar 4 frodo /System comp-user-span-tar 4 frodo /Users comp-user-span-tar 4 (The mac has one actual file system, but I am breaking it up (using excludes) to reduce the sizes of the backups -- I don't have enough holding disk space for the whole thing at one go.) The dump types look like this: define dumptype root-tar { global program "GNUTAR" comment "root partitions dumped with tar" compress none index # exclude list "/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar" exclude list ".amanda.excludes" priority low } define dumptype comp-user-span-tar { root-tar tape_splitsize 1432 Mb comment "Non-root partitions on reasonably fast machines, incrmentals only" compress client fast priority medium } And frodo:/.amanda.excludes contains: frodo.deepsoft.com% cat /.amanda.excludes ./Applications ./Library ./System ./Users ./.dbfseventsd ./opt/local/var/macports/software/ ./private/tmp/ -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services
