On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 03:51:11PM -0400, jlm17 wrote:
> I have a folder on a Windows 2000 box shared out. That folder consumes 52.3 
> GB. It appears that the planner takes that size, assumes a 50% compression 
> ratio and then aborts the dump because 27GB is too much to fit onto my tape 
> (10GB DLT 3):
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   royal.inse citdb lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than tape, 27422784 KB, but 
>   cannot incremental dump new disk]
>   planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out
> 
> 
> This would be fine, except I have an exclude list to remove most of the 
> larger sub-folders from the share. I have a couple of questions. Does 
> Planner use the exclude list when determining the required tape space? If 
> not, how do I either get it to use that, or for amdump to go ahead and dump 
> to tape anyway?
> 
> Second, I'm not even sure if my exclude list is correct. Here is my 
> dumptype:
> 
> define dumptype fulldump {
>   compress server best
>   program "GNUTAR"
>   record no
>   holdingdisk yes
>   exclude file "beta cdimage_source citcd generics tmp archive cdimage"
>   index yes
>   maxdumps 1
>   strategy STANDARD
> }
> 
> The share name is citdb. There are folders under that named beta, 
> cdimage_source, etc. I want those folders excluded. I tried this two ways, 
> one as shown above and also as citdb/beta citdb/cdimage_source, etc. I 
> don't know how gnu tar "sees" the samba share, and whether the share name 
> is needed at the beginning of each directory or not. How do I properly 
> format the exclude list to not dump the folders in the citdb share whose 
> names are listed above?
> 


Samba's tar (actually smbclient) is not compatible with amanda's exclude 
feature.

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