Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Joe Rhett
I've had no time to work on this lately. I will get back to it soon. On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Paul Bijnens wrote on 2 June 2005: > >OK, I'll jump on this. > > > Any progress on this problem? > Can you reproduce the problem with a small setup, that I could

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote on 2 June 2005: OK, I'll jump on this. Any progress on this problem? Can you reproduce the problem with a small setup, that I could duplicate here? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 02 June 2005 23:47, Joe Rhett wrote: >Okay, so if it isn't a documentation problem then what do we test > now? A test lab just demonstrated what I already knew. > >On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:16:18PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: >> Joe Rhett wrote: >> >In the meantime, can you confirm "ex

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 June 2005 06:23, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 02 June 2005 17:16, Paul Bijnens wrote: >>>The documentation is correct: >>> >>> exclude file "./some*thing" >>>this excludes all the files matching name "some*thing" >>> exclude list "/some/file" >>>/some/fil

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 02 June 2005 17:16, Paul Bijnens wrote: The documentation is correct: exclude file "./some*thing" this excludes all the files matching name "some*thing" exclude list "/some/file" /some/file on the client contains a list of patterns to be excluded I'd argue

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-03 Thread Joe Rhett
Okay, so if it isn't a documentation problem then what do we test now? A test lab just demonstrated what I already knew. On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:16:18PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Joe Rhett wrote: > > > >In the meantime, can you confirm "exclude file" versus "exclude list" ? > >Someone else

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 02 June 2005 15:50, Joe Rhett wrote: >On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:02:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> > And as I noted before, and someone tried to explain away, it >> >> > appears that the command line invocation for the exclude list >> >> > is wrong (missing an equals) runtar.2005

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Joe Rhett wrote: Okay, so if it isn't a documentation problem then what do we test now? A test lab just demonstrated what I already knew. You know it, but we don't. And we both would like to know why. Then I would like to have the config of that test: amanda.conf, disklist, the contents of t

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 02 June 2005 17:16, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Joe Rhett wrote: >> In the meantime, can you confirm "exclude file" versus "exclude >> list" ? Someone else reported a different syntax that conflicts >> with the man page, but actually makes more sense to the naked eye. >> This may be a documen

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
Joe Rhett wrote: In the meantime, can you confirm "exclude file" versus "exclude list" ? Someone else reported a different syntax that conflicts with the man page, but actually makes more sense to the naked eye. This may be a documentation problem. The documentation is correct: exclude f

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-02 Thread Joe Rhett
Thanks for the advice on doing that. I had such an environment set up last year, and was able to replicate it at will on the Windows boxes. I'll set it up again for the linux systems. Working this out on Windows stalled because I was reluctant to toy with these production systems. Windows doesn

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-02 Thread Joe Rhett
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:02:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > And as I noted before, and someone tried to explain away, it > >> > appears that the command line invocation for the exclude list is > >> > wrong (missing an equals) runtar.20050601020202.debug: > >> > running: /bin/tar: gtar --c

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-02 Thread Joe Rhett
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:11:07PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: > > That's fine, I was trying everything possible. Right now with those regexs > > I'm backing up 60gb a night from that system. Wouldn't that suggest > > something is wrong? I started with just the first regex and added others > > whe

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 02 June 2005 01:11, Joe Rhett wrote: >On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:27:11PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:25:44PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: >> > Okay, last year I had observed that perfectly valid gnutar >> > exclude lists were being ignored by amanda on Windows mac

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:11:07PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:27:11PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:25:44PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > Okay, last year I had observed that perfectly valid gnutar exclude lists > > > were being ignored by amanda

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
Joe Rhett wrote: These systems I can test with to my heart's content, unlike those Windows boxes, so tell me what you need to know. OK, I'll jump on this. I can assure you there is at least one configuration in the world where the excludes do work. First some general info needed: Amanda versi

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-01 Thread Joe Rhett
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:27:11PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:25:44PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: > > Okay, last year I had observed that perfectly valid gnutar exclude lists > > were being ignored by amanda on Windows machines. The best answer anyone > > could give me was

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:25:44PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: > Okay, last year I had observed that perfectly valid gnutar exclude lists > were being ignored by amanda on Windows machines. The best answer anyone > could give me was to build my own tar program that does the excludes, and > replace "ru

GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-01 Thread Joe Rhett
Okay, last year I had observed that perfectly valid gnutar exclude lists were being ignored by amanda on Windows machines. The best answer anyone could give me was to build my own tar program that does the excludes, and replace "runtar". Well now I've enabled my first gnutar linux clients, and th