Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:14:19PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Amanda will not complain - if the exclude file on the client is not there at all In this case amanda can construct a gtar argument list that does not contain the exclude list of a non-existing file. - or if the

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:06:07AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: Paul, I probably should look it up myself, but I'm feeling lazy. Lazy, but you're correct! I thought that the various exclude features were generalized so that amanda would make up its own exclude file

Re: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
khalid maqsudi wrote: below is the error message from the amdump.X. My OS is solaris 8. thanks for your help. m5413.drsite.univision.com $ cat amdump.1 amdump: start at Tue Jul 5 13:21:10 EDT 2005 ... changer: opening pipe to: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -info changer: got exit: 2 str:

Re: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner

2005-07-06 Thread khalid maqsudi
Hi below is an output of the three log files. amandad.DATETIME.debug, sendsize.*.debug, runtar.*.debug # sendsize: debug 1 pid 6380 ruid 10035 euid 10035: start at Tue Jul 5 14:39:51 2005 sendsize: version

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: amanda cannot do an suid root if it was built as root, no way around it due to the failure of the suid command if its already owned by root. Certainly, but I don't think the Debian packages were built as root. I just choose to run amdump

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:01 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: BTW, is it just amcheck, or amdump as well, that does or does not complain? In my experience it's only been amcheck that complains, amdump is still happy to do the backups, so this confusion hasn't been critical. ;) -- Graeme Humphries

Re: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
khalid maqsudi wrote: Hi below is an output of the three log files. amandad.DATETIME.debug, sendsize.*.debug, runtar.*.debug sendsize[6382]: time 0.032: DUMP: Cannot open dump device `/dev/md/rdsk/d10': Permission

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:32:13AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:01 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: BTW, is it just amcheck, or amdump as well, that does or does not complain? In my experience it's only been amcheck that complains, amdump is still happy to do the

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: Seems to me the only thing that needs changing is the amanda.conf man page. Currently it says: ... With exclude list, the string is a file name on the client containing GNU-tar exclude expressions. ... If optional is specified for exclude list, then amcheck

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 18:34 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: After reading all that thread I have to ask: Do you all agree with me editing the man-page as Jon suggested? It seems reasonable to me.

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 11:31, Graeme Humphries wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: amanda cannot do an suid root if it was built as root, no way around it due to the failure of the suid command if its already owned by root. Certainly, but I don't think the Debian

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 13:59 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I think this is going to be problematic, Graeme. But I'll defer to someone who is a bit more cognizant of the actual code. I do know that I cannot run either amcheck or amdump here as root, the exit, complaining about it, is instant

some filesystems fail on a host

2005-07-06 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
I have a few hosts where some filesystems fail to be backed up. I thought it might be firewall/iptables issues but the fact that at least one filesystem on the host is successful seems to ruin that idea. Also, on the amanda server one of the hosts having problems is completely trusted on all

pragmatics of holding-disk space

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Hannon
Greetings. We've had some problems with the amanda backups on our one Solaris system. We're still tweaking, so I won't yet go into details, but I did want to ask a question. We're trying to backup some relatively large file systems to an SDLT 320 tape drive. Currently the largest file

Re: pragmatics of holding-disk space

2005-07-06 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, July 06, 2005 15:44:59 -0700 Michael Hannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. We've had some problems with the amanda backups on our one Solaris system. We're still tweaking, so I won't yet go into details, but I did want to ask a question. We're trying to backup some

Re: pragmatics of holding-disk space

2005-07-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:44:59PM -0700, Michael Hannon wrote: Greetings. We've had some problems with the amanda backups on our one Solaris system. We're still tweaking, so I won't yet go into details, but I did want to ask a question. We're trying to backup some relatively large file

Re: some filesystems fail on a host

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: I have a few hosts where some filesystems fail to be backed up. I thought it might be firewall/iptables issues but the fact that at least one filesystem on the host is successful seems to ruin that idea. Also, ... scuff.cc.utexas.edu /1