Hi! I realize that it's bad form to follow-up to yourself, but nobody
else seems to be, so...
On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Richard Morse wrote:
Hi! I have a 2.4.4b1 client, compiled on Cygwin. I'd like to use the
"include list" feature, so I upgraded my server from 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.3.
I have another cygwin client that works, without using the include
list feature.
When I run amcheck, I get back the error "[include must be at least 3
character long: ]" and "[No incude for /cygdrive/c]" from the host
which I'm trying to use the include list on. I did let this host run
one night as backup, and it generated 10 bytes of data for the tape,
which is a problem, as this was a new disk, and there's more than 10
bytes of data to be backed up.
As it turns out, the two error messages are coming from different
sources.
The first one ("[include must be at least 3 character long: ]" is
because there is [was] a blank line at the end of the include file. I
usually put one extra newline at the end of a file so that I can easily
add things to the end, and for aesthetic reasons. Although this isn't
really a bug, blank lines should probably be skipped when reading the
file.
The second error is more worrisome to me. In my .amanda-gtar-includes
file, I had the line:
./Documents and Settings/jad47
Apparently, add_include only iterates over the directories at the root
of the drive (which makes sense), but therefore, it won't find anything
that matches this include: it never checks any deeper into the
hierarchy than one level, so when it iterates over "Document and
Settings", it doesn't match, because "Documents and Settings" doesn't
match the regex "Documents and Settings/jad47".
The thing is, I don't want to back up all the data in "Documents and
Settings", just the stuff in the user folder. However, I want to back
up other stuff that's at the root level (ie, at /cygdrive/c), so I
don't really want to make my disklist entry be "/cygdrive/c/docume~1",
and have to put another entry for "/cygdrive/c".
Is there any solution? (Well, I know that there probably isn't in this
version, but is it possible to make the add_include handle directories
several levels deep?)
Also, is it possible to pass both include _and_ exclude lists to tar?
So I could tell it to back up "./Documents and Settings", but exclude
"./Documents and Settings/Administrator"? (Which, actually, would be
useful just in general so I can exclude browser caches...)
Thanks,
Ricky Morse
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