On Monday 16 August 2004 12:06, Ranveer Attalia wrote:
>Hi Christoph
>
>I've found the GNUTAR dumptype and changed the partition which was
>failing to backup:
>
>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>  tsslin1    /export/mansun1_telco lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
>
>
>Amanda.conf:
>define dumptype root-tar {
>    global
>    program "GNUTAR"
>    comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
>    compress none
>    index
>    exclude list "/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar"
>    priority low
>}
>
>Disklist data:
>#TSSLIN1
>tsslin1 / nocomp
>tsslin1 /boot nocomp
>tsslin1 /usr nocomp
>tsslin1 /var nocomp
>tsslin1 /opt nocomp
>tsslin1 /databases nocomp
>tsslin1 /export/home nocomp
>tsslin1 /export/mansun1_tss nocomp
>tsslin1 /export/mansun1_telco root-tar
>
>
>When I run an amcheck Daily -C tsslin1, I get the following error.
>Problem is, the exclude.gtar file doesnt actually exist on the
> server.. Can this just be downloaded?
>
>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>--------------------------------
>ERROR: tsslin1: [Can't open exclude file
>'/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar': No such file or directory]
>Client check: 1 host checked in 0.095 seconds, 1 problem found
>
Thats easy, just take it out of the dumptype description.  Its not 
precious till you need it.

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