amanda-excludes file - includes?

2020-10-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
tory would not be backed up (due to the amanda-excludes entry) nor that I might moronically delete the QD/.bin contents. As I redevelop the scripts, I'll put them in a relocated bin directory. But I just wonder if there was some way to address this in an amanda-excludes file. I doubt it. Jon -- Jon

Re: amsamba excludes

2019-11-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.11.19 um 12:39 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Does someone have a working example for an exclude list in combo with > the amsamba application? ah, and now it works .. as so often after asking for help ;-) sorry for the noise

amsamba excludes

2019-11-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Does someone have a working example for an exclude list in combo with the amsamba application?

Re: excludes problem, was the saga continues

2019-09-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 07 September 2019 12:44:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 07 September 2019 12:05:45 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 04:31:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > i interchanged the order, so /boot was first and removed those > > > dle's that weren't

Re: excludes problem, was the saga continues

2019-09-07 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 12:44:00 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 07 September 2019 12:05:45 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 04:31:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > i interchanged the order, so /boot was first and removed those dle's > > > that weren't

Re: excludes problem, was the saga continues

2019-09-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 07 September 2019 12:05:45 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 04:31:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > i interchanged the order, so /boot was first and removed those dle's > > that weren't mounted. Same story, dead the second amanda touched it. > > (Note that the

Re: excludes problem, was the saga continues

2019-09-07 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 04:31:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > i interchanged the order, so /boot was first and removed those dle's that > weren't mounted. Same story, dead the second amanda touched it. (Note that the order the DLEs are listed in the disklist doesn't control the order they are

Re: excludes problem, was the saga continues

2019-09-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 16:37:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 06 September 2019 14:26:25 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 13:07:55 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Humm, so why does amanda crash the debian version of buster, but > > > not the raspian's (jessie,

Re: excludes problem, was the saga continues

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 14:26:25 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 13:07:55 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Humm, so why does amanda crash the debian version of buster, but not > > the raspian's (jessie, stretch) that preceded it? And crashed the > > armbian on a

Re: excludes problem, was the saga continues

2019-09-06 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 13:07:55 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Humm, so why does amanda crash the debian version of buster, but not the > raspian's (jessie, stretch) that preceded it? And crashed the armbian on > a rock64, supposedly stretch based? Gotta be something different, I would be very

Re: excludes problem, was the saga continues

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 12:12:57 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:54:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > With the usr merge, and I'm reading its not just debian but RH too, > > /bin becomes a link to usr/bin, and likewise /sbin becomes a link to > > usr/sbin. And

Re: excludes problem, was the saga continues

2019-09-06 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:54:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > With the usr merge, and I'm reading its not just debian but RH too, /bin > becomes a link to usr/bin, and likewise /sbin becomes a link to > usr/sbin. And /bib becomes a link to /usr/lib... > > But thats going to trigger on /usr/bin

excludes problem, was the saga continues

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
as related to Amanda > > > starting up on the client side, that's definitely not related to > > > the "new reject msg" issue, so it's probably best to start a new > > > thread for the crash issue...) > > > > > > Nathan > > > > It was running j

excludes lists Q

2017-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
Hello all; Locally built 3.3.7 on the server, distro clients for wheezy on the x86 boxes, a whatever is on jessie-8.6 or so on the raspi client. I am bringing up another machine on my home network, and it is ignoreing the excludes list that is in its custom dumptype. So it appears that I am

Script to show which files are NOT backed up? (gnutar excludes/includes)

2004-10-14 Thread Paul Schmidt
Hello, Since I have a large filesystem that is larger than my 40GB tapes, I use the gnutar exclude lists features to back this up. Since the method is somewhat error-prone to forgetting things/excluding too much, I was wondering if anyone had a script to show me all of the files on my filesystem

Re: Script to show which files are NOT backed up? (gnutar excludes/includes)

2004-10-14 Thread Frank Smith
(anywhere on my server) has been accidentally left out. Any suggestions for how I can do my configuration better that might prevent some of these issues would be appreciated as well. Add a DLE for largedir/ that excludes largedir/A largedir/B etc. As long as you do what you think you're

Re: Script to show which files are NOT backed up? (gnutar excludes/includes)

2004-10-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:27:17AM -0700, Paul Schmidt wrote: Hello, Since I have a large filesystem that is larger than my 40GB tapes, I use the gnutar exclude lists features to back this up. Since the method is somewhat error-prone to forgetting things/excluding too much, I was wondering

here we go again on excludes

2004-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I just setup an exclude file to skip that 2.2 gig subdir of /amanda, the one with all the daily copies of the archived indices etc in it. But now the other client is complaining it cannot find the exclude file! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]$ amcheck DailySet1 Amanda Tape Server Host

Re: here we go again on excludes

2004-01-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Gene Heskett, on Freitag, 23. Jänner 2004 at 23:40 you wrote to amanda-users: GH Greetings; GH I just setup an exclude file to skip that 2.2 gig subdir of /amanda, GH the one with all the daily copies of the archived indices etc in it. GH But now the other client is complaining it cannot

Re: here we go again on excludes

2004-01-23 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:40:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings; I just setup an exclude file to skip that 2.2 gig subdir of /amanda, the one with all the daily copies of the archived indices etc in it. But now the other client is complaining it cannot find the

Re: here we go again on excludes

2004-01-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 23 January 2004 21:26, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:40:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings; I just setup an exclude file to skip that 2.2 gig subdir of /amanda, the one with all the daily copies of the archived indices etc in it.

Samba backup with excludes ...

2004-01-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, amanda-users, welcome back to another round of discussing Samba-excludes ... I set up an AMANDA server these days. Its job is to backup one Windows-Server. This Win-box shares one big directory which contains several directories which should not be backed up due to their size and the fact

samba excludes and includes

2003-10-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
. I've been working on an smbclient wrapper to allow multiple pattern excludes but that got me wondering about the include feature. Though I've not looked at the code, it seems like enabling the include feature would require nearly the same changes that went into adding exclude. Is there any reason

Re: samba excludes and includes

2003-10-31 Thread Archie Warnock
Jon LaBadie wrote: Though I've not looked at the code, it seems like enabling the include feature would require nearly the same changes that went into adding exclude. Is there any reason, aside for lack of interest in the past, that the include feature was not added? I wouldn't know about the

Excludes [Was: Re: Service looping/terminating...]

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
- Original Message - From: David Barcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't get amanda to exclude files. I am defining them on the server and not the client. I have the following entries under my global dumptype definition in amanda.conf: define dumptype global { comment Global

Excludes?

2003-05-31 Thread David Olbersen
Does Amanda 2.4.1p1 support excludes? Can I use excludes with dump, or only gnutar? -- David Olbersen iGuard Engineer 11415 West Bernardo Court San Diego, CA 92127 1-858-676-2277 x2152

Re: client-side enforced excludes

2003-05-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:13:03PM -0400, Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello Folks, Would there be a way to force excludes from the client side? I want to enforce an exclude list regardless of wether the exclude directive states on the server amanda.conf file. One way I thought of doing

client-side enforced excludes

2003-05-27 Thread Luc Lalonde
Hello Folks, Would there be a way to force excludes from the client side? I want to enforce an exclude list regardless of wether the exclude directive states on the server amanda.conf file. One way I thought of doing this is by writting a shell wrapper for tar on the client and using

RE: Excludes not working

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:06 PM To: Stephen Carville Cc: Amanda Users Subject: Re: Excludes not working On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:10am, Stephen Carville wrote I have an exclude list that looks like: /proc /devices /tmp /temp /var/lock /var/spool/postfix/private /spool/postfix/private

RE: amanda excludes

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
: Octavian Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: amanda excludes Hello, It seems that amanda doesn't want to exclude the folders mentioned in the exclude list file. Basically, I have included an entry in the diskfile - exclude list

Re: samba excludes

2002-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 at 2:18pm, Jon LaBadie wrote The strange report is what I'm trying to eliminate. For example: /-- butch //winnie/E lev 1 STRANGE sendbackup: start [butch://winnie/E level 1] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/opt/samba/bin/smbclient sendbackup: info

Amanda, Samba Excludes

2002-06-23 Thread Donhost Support
$ -U backup -E -W HOST -d0 -TXqcg - ./Directory1 ./Directory2 Given that this smbclient syntax when run manually on the command line works and has the desired effect in that it excludes both files, this I thought would be the answer to my problem. However, when two files are specified

Re: Excludes not working

2002-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:10am, Stephen Carville wrote I have an exclude list that looks like: /proc /devices /tmp /temp /var/lock /var/spool/postfix/private /spool/postfix/private /var/tmp /lost+found *..LCK But amrecover tells me that amanda is still backing up these Indicates

amanda excludes

2002-06-23 Thread Octavian Popescu
Hello, It seems that amanda doesn't want to exclude the folders mentioned in the exclude list file. Basically, I have included an entry in the diskfile - exclude list '/excluded' On the test client, I have created the /excluded file, with read permissions for the amanda user, and which contains

Amanda, Samba Excludes

2002-01-09 Thread Donhost Support
$ -U backup -E -W HOST -d0 -TXqcg - ./Directory1 ./Directory2 Given that this smbclient syntax when run manually on the command line works and has the desired effect in that it excludes both files, this I thought would be the answer to my problem. However, when two files are specified

Re: Amanda, Samba Excludes

2002-01-09 Thread R. Bradley Tilley
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 09:45, Donhost Support wrote: Amanda with smbclient can't use excludes like Linux does. This is being addressed in the next several releases of Amanda. If you read the amanda.conf in your amanda directory, you'll notice that it points out that exclude

RE: Amanda, Samba Excludes

2002-01-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
of the amandad*debug you sent (I think -- I've not been paying close attention to this thread), the multiple excludes created a malformed packet. This is probably due to AMANDA only expecting one argument there, since multiple excludes (non samba of course) belong in an exclude list. Or am I

RE: Amanda, Samba Excludes

2002-01-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 at 4:32pm, Donhost Support wrote I don't know what the docs say, or what the case was in previous versions, but using amanda-2.4.2p2 one can exclude as many files as required by listing them on the command line one by one, each one I thought that this was exactly

RE: Amanda, Samba Excludes

2002-01-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 at 4:53pm, Donhost Support wrote In terms of getting amanda to do this, well, you've got the source. ;) I guess so, just thought there might be a way round this. As I said, I think the difficulty is differntiating between GNUTAR/tar and GNUTAR/smbclient. You may

samba excludes

2001-12-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
A while back I asked: I'm using an exclude list with some tar backups on unix. Now I'm trying to use samba for windoze backups, but I'm unable to exclude anything from those shares.. Is it feasible? Different syntax? and got one reply: Yes.

Re: samba excludes

2001-12-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 at 2:18pm, Jon LaBadie wrote The strange report is what I'm trying to eliminate. For example: /-- butch //winnie/E lev 1 STRANGE sendbackup: start [butch://winnie/E level 1] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/opt/samba/bin/smbclient sendbackup: info

Re: Excludes not working

2001-12-05 Thread Moritz Both
I think you must add a dot before each exclude list entry and you must use shell wildcards: ./proc/* ./devices/* Those are relative to the partition roots, not necessarily to the filesystem root. Moritz Du schriebst am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2001: I have an exclude list that looks like:

Re: Excludes not working

2001-12-05 Thread John Dalbec
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:10am, Stephen Carville wrote I have an exclude list that looks like: /proc /devices /tmp /temp /var/lock /var/spool/postfix/private /spool/postfix/private /var/tmp /lost+found *..LCK But amrecover tells me that

Re: Excludes not working

2001-12-05 Thread Stephen Carville
Putting a dot (.) in front of the directory names did the trick. Thanks to everyone who answered. On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator Ace Flood USA 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Excludes not working

2001-12-04 Thread Stephen Carville
Redhat 7.0 w/tar 1.13.17 Solaris 8 w/tar 1.13.19 amanda 2.4.2p2 I have an exclude list that looks like: /proc /devices /tmp /temp /var/lock /var/spool/postfix/private /spool/postfix/private /var/tmp /lost+found *..LCK But amrecover tells me that amanda is still backing up these directories.

Re: Excludes not working

2001-12-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:10am, Stephen Carville wrote I have an exclude list that looks like: /proc /devices /tmp /temp /var/lock /var/spool/postfix/private /spool/postfix/private /var/tmp /lost+found *..LCK But amrecover tells me that amanda is still backing up these Indicates

Re: Testing excludes

2001-11-30 Thread ahall
Hello, Since GNUTAR must be used as your dump program you can test with tar local on the machine, or check out the exclude doc. It is only available via cvs currently. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/amanda/amanda/docs/EXCLUDE Remember that all patterns are relative to your

Re: Testing excludes

2001-11-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:38:15AM -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: $ gtar -c -v -X exclude-file -f /dev/null /path on the amanda client On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 04:33, Stephen Carville wrote: Is there any way to test the patters in the exclude list for a disklist entry? End of included

Re: Testing excludes

2001-11-30 Thread s leonard
Thanks for the link! I'd like to humbly suggest to whoever maintains www.amanda.org, and might be reading this list that a link to: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/amanda/amanda/docs/ be located somewhere on the index page. I have had amanda for over a year, but was not aware of

Re: Testing excludes

2001-11-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
$ gtar -c -v -X exclude-file -f /dev/null /path on the amanda client On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 04:33, Stephen Carville wrote: Is there any way to test the patters in the exclude list for a disklist entry? -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator Ace Flood USA 310-342-3602