Re: One DLE too many!

Hi Paul,

This e-mail thread has produce quite a bit of response. Allappreciated. However I am still not clear if I can split my DLE'susing the include and exclude commands. I am under the impressionthat amdump runs the backup as root. Should it therefore not haveaccess to all directories? I have added the information yourequested inline below.


Thanks for taking the time to steer me in the right direction.

Vytas

less /essAt 09:29 AM 3/17/06, Paul Bijnens wrote:

On 2006-03-17 14:53, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:
Hi Again,
It's taken me a couple of days to get the suggestions tested.
So this is my current DLE entries and output from the amanda reportand comments from amrecover: Why are the DLEs with the "includes"failing? In the reports they claim to be succeeding but they arenot doing what I want. Any attempt to recover the files failsusing amrecover, which I am not surprised about . Do I need toadd a wildcard (*) to the include directory names? Or am Imissing something else?
What are the permissions of the top level directory /mnt/data06/Deforest3 ?


Listed below are the directory permissions listed from /mnt  and up.
drwxr-xr-x   15 root  root   4096 Nov  2 11:37 mnt
drwxrwsr-x  8 root uucp 4096 Mar  3 10:26 data06
drwxrws---  10 root  uucp  4096 Mar 16 09:32 Deforest3
drwxrws---   3 root uucp  4096 Jan 10 15:23 AirPhoto_Load_Tool
drwx--S---   5 root uucp  4096 Mar  1 11:18 Imagery
drwxrws---   2 root uucp 20480 Feb 23 11:09 NAPL
drwxrws---   4 root uucp  4096 Jan 16 07:48 NS_Oblique_Aerials
drwxrws---   2 root uucp 24576 Mar  6 16:07 Nova_Scotia_Photos
drwxrws---   2 root uucp  4096 Mar  9 09:55 Quality_Control
drwxrws---   2 root uucp  4096 Mar  6 13:48 Received
drwxrws---  11 root uucp  4096 Mar  7 09:11 delivery

That directory needs to be readable and searcheable by the amanda user.
(and the all the parent directories, up to the root, too!)

I have a directory on /mnt/data06/Deforest4 which does not use anyinclude or exclude which appears to archive properly.

hal /mnt/data06/Deforest3_PART1 /mnt/data06/Deforest3 {
    comp-user-tar
    include file optional "./AirPhoto_Load_Tool"
    include file optional append "./Nova_Scotia_Photos"
} 87


By putting the word "optional" here, you are in fact suppressing any
error messages about this file.
But in this case you do not want that at all.
Usually you do not want that!!!
So omit it.

I put the word optional in to suppress the amcheck error messages. Idid not believe it was also used by amdump.

Backup file flushed perfectly and appears to contain all therequired excluded directories.
I guess you mean something like "the backup file does not contain any of
the excluded directories as required" ?


That is correct.

amrecover> setdisk /mnt/data06/Deforest3_REST
200 Disk set to /mnt/data06/Deforest3_REST.
amrecover> ls
2006-03-16 .
2006-03-16 NAPL/
2006-03-16 NS_Oblique_Aerials/
2006-03-16 Quality_Control/
2006-03-16 Received/
2006-03-16 readme.txt




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