On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 11:20:20AM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> This e-mail thread has produce quite a bit of response.  All 
> appreciated.  However I am still not clear if I can split my DLE's 
> using the include and exclude commands.  I am under the impression 
> that amdump runs the backup as root.  Should it therefore not have 
> access to all directories?  I have added the information you 
> requested inline below.

The dumps yes, the setup and planning no.

> >On 2006-03-17 14:53, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:
> 
> I have a directory on /mnt/data06/Deforest4 which does not use any 
> include 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.  I 
> did not believe it was also used by amdump.

amcheck does some of its checking the same way as amdump so the
errors you avoid are probably the same ones amdump would encounter.

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