On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:19:50PM +0800, Mathias Körber wrote:
> Hi friends of AMANDA!
>
> after years I am coming back to Amanda and am overjoyed at the progress
> the package has made. I especially like the GNUTAR support (or which I
> was the first glimpses just before I stopped using ...).
>
> Anyway, I now have some questions/problems regarding defining backup sets
> for GNUTAR backups.
>
> I want to create a single backup of
> /var/imap/*
> and /var/spool/imap/*
>
> I tried this:
>
> localhost var-imap /var {
> comp-user-tar
> include "./imap*"
> include "./spool/imap/*"
> } 1
>
> to no avail. The ./spool/imap/*
> and its subdirs never made it to the archive.
>
> on looking back at the manual, it says:
> All include expression are expanded by amanda and concatenated in
> one file and passed to gnutar as a --files-from argument. They
> must start with "./" and containing no other "/".
> which would explain that ./spool/imap* dis not work.
>
> Note that I will not know of any other subdirectories of /var
> and /var/spool which I could explicitly exclude...
>
> So here my questions regarding include/exclude:
>
> a) Is there any way around this limitation?
>
> b) In which sequence are include and excludes processed?
> 1. in the sequence they appear in the definition,
> ie, does
> exclude './[a-z]*'
> include './big1'
> include big1 or will the preceding exclude
> already result in it not being seen at all?
>
> and/or would
> include './big1'
> exclude './[a-z]*'
>
> result in big1 being included or excluded?
>
> 2. includes before excludes
> 3. excludes before includes
>
> c) does using include in a definition imply a preceding 'exclude all'
> and vice versa?
>
> d) Is there a way to get amanda to do a dry-run to show which files
> it would include/exclude with a given definition but not actually
> do a backup?
>
> any help is appreciated
Welcome back. Good questions all. I hope the person(s) responsible for
adding the code are still list readers and can give us the insights.
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