Jon LaBadie wrote:

>Assuming that was the "strangeness", the specific files should be listed
>elsewhere in the report.  Monitor them for a while.  You may find they
>are spool files and other temporary files.  If so, who cares.  But also,
>why are you backing up the directory containing tmp and spool files :)
>Perhaps the exclude directive could help for file types (eg. *.tmp) or
>for some directories.
>  
>

Ahh, I was hoping that was the case.  Most of them are probably temp
files, some are new mail messages coming in, or that have been read and
deleted between the start of the tar and the point at which they were
scheduled to be added...  Not much I can do about those I suppose..  :) 
The temporary files aren't a huge problem at this point either.  It
doesn't seem to take much time to back everything up, and it's not
taking a huge amount of space yet.   I'll definitely look into it tho...

>If you find some important files are changing during backup, then you will
>have to see if it happens during a lot of backups or just occasionally.
>Based on that decide if you can live with it of need to deal with it
>in some more complex way.
>  
>

Well, I have a few databases that need to be backed up.  I'll have to
set up a script to dump them shortly before backup..   That shouldn't be
a huge problem.

Is there a way to format the amanda reports?  I'm finding a huge amount
of whitespace in the reports and it's just plain annoying...  :)

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