Re: Newbie disklist question.

2013-04-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 12/04/13 23:31, Erik P. Olsen wrote: It looks like you only specify partitions (or entire disk devices) in a disklist for data to be backed up. How should I specify discrete files to be backed up? Never mind. Found some info buried in the gigantic manpage for amanda.conf which I hope I can

Newbie disklist question.

2013-04-12 Thread Erik P. Olsen
It looks like you only specify partitions (or entire disk devices) in a disklist for data to be backed up. How should I specify discrete files to be backed up? -- Erik Concordia parvæ res crescunt discordia maximæ dilabuntur

Re: Disklist question

2008-10-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:16 AM, McGraw, Robert P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to be able to use a different disklist for different runs. Other than > use shell scripting to mv disklista to disklist is there a way to tell > amanda what disklist to use during a run. Sure -- supply the path t

Re: Disklist question

2008-10-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Thanks for the information about the -o option in amdump this is exactly what I needed. Several people have asked why I wanted to do this. I have a perl script that runs ever day that produces a .sh script that does the backup. There is a lot of pre and post processing around the amdump. The per

Re: Disklist question

2008-10-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda.conf: diskfile string Default: disklist. The file name for the disklist file holding client hosts, disks and other client dumping information. You can use: amdump -odiskfile=disklista Why do you want to do use different disklist file? You could have one d

Re: Disklist question

2008-10-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
Robert, On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:16:29AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P wrote: > I want to be able to use a different disklist for different runs. Other than > use shell scripting to mv disklista to disklist is there a way to tell > amanda what disklist to use during a run. What needs to remain the sa

Disklist question

2008-10-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I want to be able to use a different disklist for different runs. Other than use shell scripting to mv disklista to disklist is there a way to tell amanda what disklist to use during a run. Robert -- Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue

Re: disklist question

2003-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:44, Michael Packer wrote: >I'm trying to break up a large disk into smaller sections when it > does a backup.. I tried: > >localhost /sda5/other sda5 { > exclude "./files" > exclude "./snap" > exclude "./web" > always-full >} 1 > >but that doesn't

Re: disklist question

2003-06-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
Michael Packer wrote: I'm trying to break up a large disk into smaller sections when it does a backup.. I tried: localhost /sda5/other sda5 { exclude "./files" exclude "./snap" exclude "./web" always-full } 1 You are using amanda 2.4.3 or above, I presume. Is your bas

disklist question

2003-06-19 Thread Michael Packer
I'm trying to break up a large disk into smaller sections when it does a backup.. I tried: localhost /sda5/other sda5 { exclude "./files" exclude "./snap" exclude "./web" always-full } 1 but that doesn't seem to be working how can I tell it to exclude those three di

Re: Disklist question

2003-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 June 2003 10:42, Jason Edgecombe wrote: >I have a question about the disklist format. > >I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / > (without /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do > that? Must I specify each directory in / as a separate DLE? > I am

Re: Disklist question

2003-06-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:42:23AM -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > I have a question about the disklist format. > > I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without > /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I > specify each directory in / as a sep

Re: Disklist question

2003-06-03 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 at 10:42am, Jason Edgecombe wrote I have a question about the disklist format. I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I specify each directory in / a

Re: Disklist question

2003-06-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 at 10:42am, Jason Edgecombe wrote > I have a question about the disklist format. > > I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without > /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I > specify each directory in / as a separate DLE?

Disklist question

2003-06-03 Thread Jason Edgecombe
I have a question about the disklist format. I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I specify each directory in / as a separate DLE? Sincerely, Jason Edgecombe

Re: Splitting a big directory (disklist question)

2003-01-30 Thread Nick Russo
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Chris Dahn wrote: > From the man page (of 2.4.2), it doesn't look like you can specify regular > expressions for the diskdevice. Thus, linux, pics and mydocs are okay, but > the others are failing (if I'm mistaken about this for 2.4.3, please correct > me). You are correct,

Re: Splitting a big directory (disklist question)

2003-01-30 Thread Niall O Broin
On Thursday 30 January 2003 15:23, Jeff Borders wrote: > I've got a dds2 drive and need to split up a big directory so the images > will fit on a tape. I've read posts and docs but I'm not doing > something right. I don't understand the example of this in the > amanda-2.4.3/example/disklist file

Re: Splitting a big directory (disklist question)

2003-01-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 30 Jan 2003 at 10:23am, Jeff Borders wrote > I've got a dds2 drive and need to split up a big directory so the images > will fit on a tape. I've read posts and docs but I'm not doing > something right. I don't understand the example of this in the > amanda-2.4.3/example/disklist file. Here i

Re: Splitting a big directory (disklist question)

2003-01-30 Thread Chris Dahn
On Thursday 30 January 2003 10:23 am, Jeff Borders wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a dds2 drive and need to split up a big directory so the images > will fit on a tape. I've read posts and docs but I'm not doing > something right. I don't understand the example of this in the > amanda-2.4.3/example/

Splitting a big directory (disklist question)

2003-01-30 Thread Jeff Borders
Hello, I've got a dds2 drive and need to split up a big directory so the images will fit on a tape. I've read posts and docs but I'm not doing something right. I don't understand the example of this in the amanda-2.4.3/example/disklist file. Here is a sample of what I'm trying to do: curly /