Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-09 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Too many comments on this thread to read them all (too many other things that need attention). However, I just wanted to note that I had been having trouble with include and exclude to break up DLEs some time ago. When I posted asking for help, JLM replied back and told me that I really needed

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-09 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:57 PM Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 21:24:04 -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > > Dump program is GNUTAR. I can switch to amgtar. > > > > Amgtar is more flexible to use (and easier to maintain, should > development on Amanda ever resume), so

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-09 Thread Olivier
Jon LaBadie writes: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:06:47PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: >> Ah, good! What does “file” do in your include line? >> Deb >> > Include (and exclude) can take a first argument of "file" or "list". > With "file" the following string is a "glob" expression. > "file"

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:06:47PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > Ah, good! What does “file” do in your include line? > Deb > Include (and exclude) can take a first argument of "file" or "list". With "file" the following string is a "glob" expression. "file" is the default but I like to

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 21:24:04 -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > Dump program is GNUTAR. I can switch to amgtar. > Amgtar is more flexible to use (and easier to maintain, should development on Amanda ever resume), so while you're rolling this out it's probably worth switching. (And it should

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 5:35 PM Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > > I haven't quite followed this whole thread, either, but have you taken a > look at > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Split_DLEs_With_Exclude_Lists > ? It may help explain some of the nuances in how things work. > That

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 15:21:00 -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 1:56 PM Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) < > brian.cutt...@health.ny.gov> wrote: > > > > > > > Your syntax > > > > > > > > fileserver "/netdrives/CAMPUS/af" "/netdrives/CAMPUS" { > > comp-tar > > include

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.11.18 um 22:55 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 08.11.18 um 22:52 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: manpage says: exclude [ list | file ][[optional][append][ string ]+] Default: file. Exclude is the opposite of include and specifies files that will be excluded from the backup. The format

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.11.18 um 22:52 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: manpage says: exclude [ list | file ][[optional][append][ string ]+] Default: file. Exclude is the opposite of include and specifies files that will be excluded from the backup. The format of the exclude expressions depends on the

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.11.18 um 22:49 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 08.11.18 um 22:06 schrieb Debra S Baddorf: Ah, good!   What does “file”  do in your include line? exactly include file ... means "read include regex(es) from that file you want include "./[a-g]*" and not "include file" see manpage

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.11.18 um 22:06 schrieb Debra S Baddorf: Ah, good! What does “file” do in your include line? exactly include file ... means "read include regex(es) from that file you want include "./[a-g]*" and not "include file" see manpage

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Debra S Baddorf
done an excellent job of exclusion, you’ll >>> pardon the poor attempt at humor, it is getting late in the day. >>> >>> >>> From: Chris Nighswonger >>> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:21 PM >>> To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
November 8, 2018 3:21 PM > > To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) > > Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org > > Subject: Re: Breaking DLEs up > > > > ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments > > or click on links from unknown senders or unexpecte

RE: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
er come up. -Original Message- From: Debra S Baddorf Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:44 PM To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Cc: Debra S Baddorf ; Chris Nighswonger ; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Breaking DLEs up ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open a

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Debra S Baddorf
ighswonger > Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:21 PM > To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) > Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subject: Re: Breaking DLEs up > > ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments > or click on links from unknown senders or

RE: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
:21 PM To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Breaking DLEs up ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 1:56 PM Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 1:56 PM Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) < brian.cutt...@health.ny.gov> wrote: > > > Your syntax > > > > fileserver "/netdrives/CAMPUS/af" "/netdrives/CAMPUS" { > comp-tar > include "./[a-f]*" > estimate server > } > > > > my syntax > > > > finsen /export/home-A

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:57 PM Alan Hodgson wrote: > > I looked at your original post and it looked like it should work, and > the logs show it mostly did work, it just didn't see anything to back > up. I'd suspect permission problems or a bug in your version of tar > maybe. The only thing the

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2018-11-08 at 13:24 -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > No question is stupid. I learned that beating my head against the > wall for long hours. :-) > > /netdrives/CAMPUS/ is a path which contains users' network drives. > The level below CAMPUS contains folders which follow the naming >

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:34 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 01:24:46PM -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > > > Here is the relevant portion of my DLEs: > > > > > > fileserver "/netdrives/CAMPUS/af" "/netdrives/CAMPUS" { > > > comp-tar > > > include "./[a-f]*" > > > estimate

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 01:24:46PM -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > No question is stupid. I learned that beating my head against the wall for > long hours. :-) > [snip] > > > > > > Here is the relevant portion of my DLEs: > > > > fileserver "/netdrives/CAMPUS/af" "/netdrives/CAMPUS" { > >

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Debra S Baddorf
, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:31 PM Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) > wrote: > > > > > Stupid question, host fileserver, directories /netdrives/CAMPUS/s* to > /netdrives/CAMPUS/z* exist and have some files in them? > > > > From: Chris Nighswonger > Sent: Thursday,

RE: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
user-tar2 include "./[A-Z]*" } I’ve removed all but the last email you wrote from this email, it was getting long for little or no gain. From: Chris Nighswonger Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 1:25 PM To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Sub

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
2018 12:11 PM > *To:* Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) > *Cc:* amanda-users@amanda.org > *Subject:* Re: Breaking DLEs up > > > > *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* > >

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Debra S Baddorf
rives/CAMPUS/z* exist and have some files in them? > > From: Chris Nighswonger > Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:11 PM > To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) > Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subject: Re: Breaking DLEs up > > ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do n

Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.11.18 um 18:11 schrieb Chris Nighswonger: > Thu Nov  8 05:27:11 2018: thd-0x1c8f200: sendbackup: Nothing found to > include for disk /netdrives/CAMPUS/sz "nothing found"

RE: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
Stupid question, host fileserver, directories /netdrives/CAMPUS/s* to /netdrives/CAMPUS/z* exist and have some files in them? From: Chris Nighswonger Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:11 PM To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Breaking DLEs up ATTENTION

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) < brian.cutt...@health.ny.gov> wrote: > Client and server side? > > /var/log/amanda/ ? > > > > > > *From:* Chris Nighswonger > *Sent:* Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:43 AM > *To:* Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) > *Cc:* amanda-users@

RE: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
(or equiv). From: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:00 PM To: 'Chris Nighswonger' Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: RE: Breaking DLEs up Client and server side? /var/log/amanda/ ? From: Chris Nighswonger mailto:cnighswon...@foundations.edu>> Sent: Th

RE: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
Client and server side? /var/log/amanda/ ? From: Chris Nighswonger Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:43 AM To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Breaking DLEs up ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links

Re: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
e > an issue. > > > > What do the /tmp/amanda files show for these attempted dumps? > > > > *From:* owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org *On > Behalf Of *Chris Nighswonger > *Sent:* Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:12 AM > *To:* amanda-users@amanda.org > *Subject:* Breaki

RE: Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
: Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:12 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Breaking DLEs up ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. I attempted this and it appears to not have worked. I'm not sure why

Breaking DLEs up

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
I attempted this and it appears to not have worked. I'm not sure why. Here is the relevant portion of my DLEs: fileserver "/netdrives/CAMPUS/af" "/netdrives/CAMPUS" { comp-tar include "./[a-f]*" estimate server } fileserver "/netdrives/CAMPUS/gl" "/netdrives/CAMPUS" { comp-tar include