Hi Martin,
your exclude-list syntax is not correct....

Martin Schwarz schrieb:

Hello fellow amanda users,

I have been using amanda for some time, successfully backing up whole
filsystems with dump. Now I'm trying to back up only parts of one
(large) filesystem using gnutar and the exclude-list feature. The
relevant config snippets are as follows (machine lissy is server and
client in one, config name is "lissyDaily1"):

[/etc/amanda/lissyDaily1/disklist]
lissy   /disk-c1/martin         comp-user-tar

[/etc/amanda/lissyDaily1/amanda.conf]
...
define dumptype comp-user-tar {
    program "GNUTAR"
    comment "partitions dumped with tar"
    options compress-fast, index
    exclude list "/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
    priority medium
}

[/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar]
/disk-c1/martin/mac

this should read

./mac

it is relative to the root stated in your disklist-entry.

The results are not as I had expected. amanda seems to ignore the
exclude list and tries to backup the whole filesystem below
"/disk-c1/martin". Since this includes the rather large subdirectory
"/disk-c1/martin/mac", the backup doesn't fit on the tape and fails:

[lissyDaily1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR September 21, 2002]
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  lissy      /disk-c1/martin lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape,
skipping incremental]

The /var/log/amanda/lissyDaily1/amdump.1 log file show the estimated
backup size as:

    got result for host lissy disk /disk-c1/martin: 0 -> 23243790K, 1 ->
23093150K, -1 -> -1K

which is (give or take a few KB) the size of the whole /disk-c1/martin
hierarchy INCLUDING the /disk-c1/martin/mac subdirectory:

$ du -sk /disk-c1/martin /disk-c1/martin/mac
23298740        /disk-c1/martin
23133416        /disk-c1/martin/mac
$

So, /disk-c1/martin EXCLUDING /disk-c1/martin/mac should be only
165324KB or about 160MBytes which would fit perfectly on the tape.

Some more information on my system:

- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 on i386, using the distribiution binary packages
(amanda-client  2.4.2p2-4, amanda-common  2.4.2p2-4, amanda-server
2.4.2p2-4)
- single DDS2 SCSI tape drive (/dev/nst0), configured like this:
    define tapetype DDS2-120m {
        comment "WangTek DAT tape drive (DDS2)"
        length 3265 mbytes
        filemark 100 kbytes
        speed 300 kbytes
    }

I have searched the mailing list archives and FAQ-O-Matic but still
haven't got a clue about this. I will happily give more information on
the setup if needed. Any help is very welcome!

Many thanks in advance!
Martin.

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