We're going a bit far afield from what Kevin had originally posted but oh 
well.

Are you using version 2.4.2, Gene?  Kevin and I are using v2.4.3b3 and
have found the same problem with exclude lists.  What I have found (again,
with v2.4.3b3) was that the exclude keyword in a dumptype definition
*causes the size estimates from tar to fail*.  The debug info from Amanda
shows that tar is never even called.  From one of my tests 
(sendsize.*.debug):

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sendsize: debug 1 pid 27066 ruid 499 euid 499 start time Mon Aug 19 
14:31:57 2002
/home/amanda/libexec/sendsize: version 2.4.3b3
sendsize: calculating for amname '/', dirname '/'
sendsize: getting size via gnutar for / level 0
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(Note that there were three other partitions called with the same 
dumptype: the size estimates weren't even attempted by amanda -- the 
above is the entire contents of the debug file.)  This with a dumptype 
definition of:

define dumptype TEST {
    global
    comment "test dumptype"
    program "GNUTAR"
    compress none
    index
    exclude "./amanda"
    record no
}

(The idea of the exclude was the same as Kevin's: to exclude the holding 
disk areas from those disks.)  The result is the same if I use:

exclude "./amanda*"
exclude "*amanda*
exclude list ".amanda.exclude"
exclude list "./.amanda.exclude"

etc., in the dumptype definition.  The exclude keyword seemed to work in 
v2.4.2p2, but I decided to upgrade to 2.4.3b3 to get other features 
working (I'm not sure if it was worth it now...).

I've taken a brief look into the code for how exclude lists are handled, 
but there was such a big change from v2.4.2 to v2.4.3, I'm not sure if 
I'll be able to figure out what broke the exclude keyword...

Note that in the amandad debug file, the exclude list seems to be parsed 
OK, so it really must be in the call to sendsize that the error is 
occurring...

J.


On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 19 August 2002 16:12, John Ouellette wrote:
> >I've played around with the exclude lists for a while (as defined
> > in the dumptypes) and have had no luck in getting any configs
> > with exclude lists to work, whether I define the paths with the
> > leading ./ or no....
> >
> >Kevin was using an exclude list defined in the disklist, but I
> > assume it is the same code that parses this and passes it on to
> > 'tar', so the same bug might exist.
> >
> >And, according to the docs and examples, you do need the quotes...
> > (or get a parse error if you exclude them).
> >
> I'm not here, but I'm using an exclude file too, here it is:
> ---------------------
> ./usr/dumps/*
> ./var/pacct
> ---------------------
> 
> Also, I recall the filename didn't give the full path in your earler 
> example, which should look like this in your amanda.conf:
> ------------------------------------------
> define dumptype root-tar {
>     global
>     program "GNUTAR"
>     comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
>     compress none
>     index yes
>     exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
>     priority low
> }
> 
> define dumptype user-tar {
>     root-tar
>     comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
>     exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
>     compress server best
>     priority medium
> }
> -----------------etc, etc taking note that each "dumptype" can have 
> its own unique name-it-whatever-file.
> 
> >I've started to trudge through the code to see if the bug is
> > obvious, but haven't managed to get far.
> >
> >J.
> >
> >On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Monday 19 August 2002 12:00, Kevin Passey wrote:
> >> >Thanks John
> >> >
> >> >That is what I am using.
> >> >
> >> >I only what to omit the /dumps folders.
> >>
> >> Did you specify them as "./dumps" (without the quotes of course)
> >> The missing leading dot in your line above says its your exclude
> >> file thats broken.   Tar's exludes are relative to the currently
> >> being processed directory, hence the leading ./
> >>
> >> >I think I will have to create them in a separate partition.
> >> >
> >> >Thanks for that.
> >> >
> >> >Regards
> >> >
> >> >Kevin
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >>
> >> From: John Ouellette [mailto:ouellet AT amnh DOT org]
> 
> [...]
> 
> 

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