Re: Getting rid of error noise on amanda backups of windows servers.

TJ wrote:


I have windows servers which I am successfully backing up on Amanda
residing on a solaris 8 server.  But I get a lot of errors which I
need to reduce if at all possible.  I have checked the Amanda docs and
it seems to talk about mostly the "exclude" option.  But this exclude
option seems to entail a exclude file which resides on the client
machine which only seems more applicable for *nix machine.  Any help
greatly appreciated - check out these loopy messages :

? ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess opening remote file \Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application
Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys\234205fb9b3e55cf2679524ef4805eb5_a422d2a8-4e26-4d3c-bdbd-6535bc245043
(\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys\)
? ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess opening remote file \Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application
Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys\2ed3ca758758e33f0ce0070f7f187b9f_a422d2a8-4e26-4d3c-bdbd-6535bc245043
(\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys\)
? ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess opening remote file \Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application
Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys\4c0077649915c8d0072218dbde581ae0_a422d2a8-4e26-4d3c-bdbd-6535bc245043
(\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys\)



Well, I could have sworn I answered to a similar message a few days
ago, but I can't even find my own reply.
I must have been dreaming :-) .

Here I go again:

You have to recompile, using the IGNORE_SMBCLIENT_ERRORS macro defined,
which enables additional regular expression that you find in the file
client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c, like this:

   $ make distclean
   $ CGLAGS=-DIGNORE_SMBCLIENT_ERRORS ./configure --with-user=... etc.
   $ make
   $ su
   # make install

Note the comment in source:

  /* This will cause amanda to ignore real errors, but that may be
   * unavoidable when you're backing up system disks.  It seems to be
   * a safe thing to do if you know what you're doing.  */

This means: it could hide the fact that your most important file is
not included in the backup.


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