DIsk offline error with LVM snapshot volumes

[Patrick Frey]

Hello,

I have several logical volumes which I want to backup with AMANDA.
To make a proper backup, I create snapshot volumes before I start the 
backup.
Now, trying to backup these snapshot volumes, AMANDA reports 'disk 
offline'.
If I try to backup the nomal volumes, everything works fine

I use Suse 8.0, tar 1.13.25, AMANDA 2.4.2p2.


Any experience with that issue ?

Regards
Patrick

smb exclude lists

[Casey Scott]

Hi all,

I have been through all the documentation I can find, and still don't know if 
it's possible to exclude a directory from a windows (smb) backup. I have the 
following as my dumptype, and PAGEFILE.SYS is ignored but nothing else:

define dumptype comp-smb {
root-tar
comment Root partitions with compression
compress client fast
exclude ./TuxDownloads
exclude ./Documents and Settings\Casey Scott
exclude ./WINNT\system32\config
exclude ./PAGEFILE.SYS
dumpcycle 0
}

Do I have to name every file that I want to be ignored, or is there just a 
syntax mistake with the directory declarations?

Thanks,
Casey Scott

Re: smb exclude lists

[Christoph Scheeder]

Hi,
Two things:
First your syntax is bad, in a dumptype with exclude  you can only define one 
file to exclude. if you use it multiple times, only the last exclude-line is used.
For more the one file to exclude use the exclude list option. It takes a file 
listing the files to exclude.

But with samba you are lost as far as i remember.
With amanda and samba you can only exclude one single file with the exclude command,
as the exclude list command does not work with samba due to limitation of the 
dumper api or the smb-tar, i don't rem,ember exactly which of both.
Christoph

Casey Scott schrieb:
 Hi all,
 
   I have been through all the documentation I can find, and still don't know if 
 it's possible to exclude a directory from a windows (smb) backup. I have the 
 following as my dumptype, and PAGEFILE.SYS is ignored but nothing else:
 
 define dumptype comp-smb {
 root-tar
 comment Root partitions with compression
 compress client fast
 exclude ./TuxDownloads
 exclude ./Documents and Settings\Casey Scott
 exclude ./WINNT\system32\config
 exclude ./PAGEFILE.SYS
 dumpcycle 0
 }
 
 Do I have to name every file that I want to be ignored, or is there just a 
 syntax mistake with the directory declarations?
 
 Thanks,
 Casey Scott