On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 03:51:11PM -0400, jlm17 wrote:
> I have a folder on a Windows 2000 box shared out. That folder consumes 52.3
> GB. It appears that the planner takes that size, assumes a 50% compression
> ratio and then aborts the dump because 27GB is too much to fit onto my tape
> (10GB DLT 3):
>
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> royal.inse citdb lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than tape, 27422784 KB, but
> cannot incremental dump new disk]
> planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out
>
>
> This would be fine, except I have an exclude list to remove most of the
> larger sub-folders from the share. I have a couple of questions. Does
> Planner use the exclude list when determining the required tape space? If
> not, how do I either get it to use that, or for amdump to go ahead and dump
> to tape anyway?
>
> Second, I'm not even sure if my exclude list is correct. Here is my
> dumptype:
>
> define dumptype fulldump {
> compress server best
> program "GNUTAR"
> record no
> holdingdisk yes
> exclude file "beta cdimage_source citcd generics tmp archive cdimage"
> index yes
> maxdumps 1
> strategy STANDARD
> }
>
> The share name is citdb. There are folders under that named beta,
> cdimage_source, etc. I want those folders excluded. I tried this two ways,
> one as shown above and also as citdb/beta citdb/cdimage_source, etc. I
> don't know how gnu tar "sees" the samba share, and whether the share name
> is needed at the beginning of each directory or not. How do I properly
> format the exclude list to not dump the folders in the citdb share whose
> names are listed above?
>
Samba's tar (actually smbclient) is not compatible with amanda's exclude
feature.
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