On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:03:30PM -0400, Robin WONG wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am attempting to backup a huge windows partition found on a snap server 
> via a linux box.  At first, I smbmounted the share and backed it up via 
> this mount method.  But I noticed that whether it was doing a level 0 dump 
> or a level 1 dump, the dumpsize was no different.  It was always doing a 
> level 0 regardless.
> 
> So, I had a look in docs/SAMBA, and I am guessing smbmount doesn't take 
> into account the 'archive' bit.  But when I stat a file on the share, it 
> appears to return valid information, so I don't see why smbmounting 
> doesn't work.  Anyway...

smbmounting may use at it heart nfs.  That may cause it to lose
some information when the smb data is converted into a generic
nfs structure.

> 
> Suffice it to say, I can't do a full dump of the snap server every 
> evening, so I've attempted to use smbclient.  However, the disklist entry 
> I used for smbmounted shares no longer works.  Amcheck fails with the 
> following:
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files']
> ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/uz']
> ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files']
> ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/qt']
> ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files']
> ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/mp']
> ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files']
> ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/il']
> ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files']
> ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/eh']
> ERROR: snazz: [Can't open disk '//snapserver/files']
> ERROR: snazz: [No include for '/mnt/snap/ad']
> Client check: 7 hosts checked in 2.099 seconds, 12 problems found
> 
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4)
> 
> 
> Here is one of the modified disklist entries I've attempted to use to 
> backup the snap server:
> 
> snazz /mnt/snap/uz //snapserver/files {
>         # all directories that start with [u-z]
>         root-tar
>         include "./[u-zU-Z]*"
>         } 1
> 

include is not valid for smbclient backups with amanda
exclude is, but only for a single file.


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