Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

2003-07-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:53:44PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > When using multiple excludes only the last one is remembered, unless > you specify the "append" keyword to exclude like: > > exclude append "./pagefile.sys" > > But!!! When using samba to backup a Windows share, the > specifi

RE: Problems backing up large W2K drive

2003-07-24 Thread Gregor Ibic
i installed cygwin version and it is working ok. with cygwin version you can exclude what do you like, just like on linux installation. regards, gregor

Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

2003-07-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Freitag, 25. Juli 2003 at 00:06 you wrote to amanda-users: PB> Be aware than when using samba to backup a PC, you're in fact not PB> using gnutar at all; you use the built in tar in smbclient. Thanks for pointing that out. AFAIK it ainĀ“t that clear from just reading /docs/SAMBA ...

Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

2003-07-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2003 at 23:53 you wrote to amanda-users: PB> When using multiple excludes only the last one is remembered, unless PB> you specify the "append" keyword to exclude like: PB> exclude append "./pagefile.sys" PB> But!!! When using samba to backup a Windows sha

Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
Bob Zahn wrote: > I'm needing to backup a Windows 2K server that has a large 46+GB > shared 'D$' drive. This disk contains an application that has many > little files and even under the best circumstances with purchased > backup software it will take 30 to 36 hours to backup. I've managed > to get

Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: SGW> define dumptype hugedisk { SGW> program "GNUTAR" SGW> exclude "./pagefile.sys" SGW> exclude "*/*.tmp" SGW> exclude "*/*.zip" SGW> < other options here ... > SGW> } When using multiple excludes only the last one is remembered, unless you specify the "append" keyword

Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

2003-07-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger, on Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2003 at 20:47 you wrote to amanda-users: SGW> After I read that I just implemented something like that in a customers amanda.conf SGW> today. SGW> Like: SGW> define dumptype hugedisk { SGW> program "GNUTAR" SGW> exclude "./pagefile.sys" SGW> ex

Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

2003-07-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Bob, on July, 24th 2003 at 19:55 you wrote to amanda-users: BZ> I was hoping to use include or exclude options of gnutar but samba will not really play well in BZ> this game. I tried to divide the large shared drive into directories using the include option in BZ> both the disklist and in t