Re: disklist and wildcard question

At 12:54 PM 1/15/2004, Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:24:47AM -0500, Dan L. Ostrom wrote:
> All,
>       I am using amanda (2.4.4p1) on a 280R running Solaris 8 with a 10
> tape DLT IV autoloader. This is going to backup a SANS (256gb).
>
>       Since the SANS cannot have any *applications* installed on it (ie:
> the amanda client daemons), I am using gnutar to try to do the backups.
> amdump is working fine until I try to backup a directory that has many large
> files in a subdirectory. In order to allow amanda to copy the files to
> the 40gb (native) tape, I have put entries in the disklist file with
> wildcards for the files I want to include:
>
> disklist:
>
> myhost /data/los/2003 {
>       include "*200300*"
>       data-tar
>                       }
>
>
>       myhost is the SUN machine with the tape drive on it's scsi chain.
> The daemons are installed and in the inetd.conf and services file on this
> machine.
>
>       /data/los/2003 is the NFS mount directory off of the SANS.
> The total number of bytes for files with *200300* in the subdir is < 20gb.

Just so I've got the picture correct.

                             |- foo200200bar            # individual file, don't do
                             |- foo200300bar            # individual file, do
                             |- 200200 -- stuff         # dir with files and dirs, don't do any
   / -- data -- los -- 2003 -|- 200300 -- stuff         # dir with files and dirs, do all
                             |- foo200200bar -- stuff   # dir with files and dirs, don't do any
                             |- bar200300foo -- stuff   # dir with files and dirs, do all

I check as you have said "files with *200300*", but it is actually files AND directories
immediately under the "/data/los/2003" starting point that will be backed up entirely or
not at all. Once tar starts at a particular directory, it does the entire tree.

        Right, in the 2003 directory, I want it to backup only files/dirs that contain
the pattern 200300 in the filename. I would have additional entries for 200301 - 200309
to pick up the remainder of the files on the 2003 directory as well.

        Running the command:

tar cvf /tmp/mytar *200300*

        does just tar up the files requested. Since amdump is running the same tar command
(yes, tar is gtar here), shouldn't the disklist file entries work? Or am I misunderstanding
what the include/exclude statements are for or how they function?

        Thanks.

>
>       When I run amcheck against this, is exits without errors. When I run
>       amdump,
> I get the following error:
>
>
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> myhost /data/los/2003 lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than tape, 74339580 KB, but
> cannot incremental dump new disk]
> planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out
>

Amcheck doesn't know about sizes, so it would find no error.

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