You know, I am always amazed at the different things to be found in amanda's
source code. I tried writing a more detailed "INTERNALS" document a while
ago: it did not work out.
I will try the "make getfsent". thank you again for your time.
--jason
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, 28 May, 2004 00:02
> To: Jason.Brooks AT windriver DOT com
> Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Amanda not backing up Veritas file systems correctly
>
> Jason.Brooks AT windriver DOT com wrote:
>
> > Actually, I don't have those entries in /etc/vfstab. I
> will give that
> > a try.
> >
> > For future reference, in order to handle transient
> filesystems such as
> > this, it might be better off evaluating the output of
> "mount" rather
> > than the filesystem table. Except I can't remember if it
> gives FS info.
>
> If you have amanda sources around, take a look in the dir
> "client-src".
> There is file name "getfsent.c" which contains the code.
> The beginning comment is:
> /*
> * You are in a twisty maze of passages, all alike.
> * Geesh.
> */
> And that becomes clear when trying to understand the next few
> lines :-)
>
> To help debugging this, you can compile getfsent into a
> standalone program. Just type "make getfsent" in that directory.
> When you run it as "./getfsent" it shows which blocks were
> defined in the maze of passages and shows what amanda thinks
> about each filesystem on the host.
>
>
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