Hi Gene, The exclude here, is to exclude a subdir that are to big to go in one backup, that's the reason I have another line in the disklist so I can backup the exclude in next backup.
The quotes are necessary because sometimes users put spaces in file
and dir names!!
Cheers,
Nuno
On Tue, 2019-06-11 at 07:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 June 2019 06:47:15 am Nuno Dias wrote:
>
> > Thanks, but I'm already doing that (the exclude)
> >
> > This is what I have in disklist
> >
> > MACHINE /dir/subdir/name/2019 {
> > tar
> > exclude "./subdir/*"
>
> looks wrong, excludes are in the dumptype specified, in the
> amanda,conf
>
> ./subdir in your exclude s/b sufficient to block any and all access
> below that level. and the dbl-qoutes at not needed.
>
> All of this s/b in the dumptype section in your amanda.conf, and
> your
> disklist should contain only the dumptype which is then referenced
> to
> determine if there even is an exclude, or exclude list if more than
> 1
> exclude, in which case the name of the exclude list is any handy name
> to
> identify to you, which dumptype its to be used with.
>
> I don't believe the disklist is scanned for any exclude info, just
> the
> dumptype, that is what specifies all of that profile.
> > }
> >
> > MACHINE /dir/subdir/name/2019/subdir tar
> >
> > Because this are very big directories, I want to dump only one
> every
> > time, anyone know how I can do this?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Nuno
> >
> > On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 16:37 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 11:04:48AM +0100, Nuno Dias wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to use amanda to backup only one dir from a list of
> > > > dirs
> > > > that are in disklist file
> > > >
> > > > I run amdump like this
> > > >
> > > > $ /usr/sbin/amdump XXXX -o reserve=0 --no-taper MACHINE
> > > > ^/dir/subdir/name/2019$
> > > >
> > > > and with ps I can see the amdump running
> > > >
> > > > /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/amdump XXXX -o reserve=0 --no-taper
> > > > MACHINE ^/dir/subdir/name/2019$
> > > >
> > > > The problem is instead of only one dir I have two dirs in the
> > > > backup
> > > >
> > > > MACHINE:/dir/subdir/name/2019 20190606153859 0 486g
> > > > dumping
> > > > (18g done (3.74%)) (15:39:26)
> > > >
> > > > MACHINE:/dir/subdir/name/2019/another 20190606153859
> > > > 1 244g
> > > > wait for dumping
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > From the amanda-match man page
> > > >
> > > > /usr$
> > > > Will match the disks /usr but not /usr/local.
> > > >
> > > > So, this is a bug or I'm doing something wrong?
> > >
> > > Not wrong, just a misconception.
> > > The directory you give is a "starting" directory. amdump will
> > > backup everything under that directory unless it could cross
> > > a mount point (file system) or if something is excluded.
> > >
> > > So, assuming you have a DLE for ".../2019" and that your
> "another"
> > > directory is the only problem, add a directive to the DLE to
> > > exclude another. If you don't have a DLE for 2019, PERHAPS
> > > the -o option to amdump can be used to add an exclude directive.
> > > I don't know if it can or cannot.
> > >
> > > Jon
> > >
> > > > I'm using amanda-3.5.1-16.fc29.x86_64
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > > Nuno
> > > > --
> > > > Nuno Dias <nd...@lip.pt>
> > > > LIP
> > > >
> > > > > > End of included message <<<
>
>
>
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