>>>>> "Jon" == Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> writes:

    Jon> Does 'amadmin <config> disklist omni /var/spool/... ' show
    Jon> indexing turned on?

Yes.

    Jon> Are there index files for those DLE's under your index dir?

Yes, all gzipped; decompress to an empty file.

    Jon> Was there ever a successful backup of the DLE's in question?

No, I'm pretty sure there was never one.

    Jon> Does the mailed to you report show anything of interest about
    Jon> failures or strange results?

Only in the root partition, because of log files, sockets, and so
on. No strange results in the DLE's in question.

    Jon> I presume the DLE's for /home/{ag|hm|nt} are similar to those
    Jon> for /var/spool/imap/user/{ag|hm|nt}.  Same similarity for the
    Jon> "uz" entries.  Yet all the /home ones are working, the
    Jon> "include" ones for /var... aren't.

    Jon> What is different about the /home and /var/spool DLE's?

Not much. The latter was based on a copy&paste of the former.

    Jon> What is different about /home itself vs /var/spool/imap/user?

There is a physical partition mounted on /home, and therefore /home
corresponds to the root directory of the partition in question. The
/var/spool/... are in the root (/) partition. I'm assuming (hoping)
that the "include" directive only works for directories in the root of
a mounted partition!!! I want to split the /var/spool/imap/user
directory in several dumps; do I have to create a physical partition
and mount it at /var/spool/imap/user? (that's unreasonable for my server)

I guess the central issue lies here: does a DLE have to correspond to
a filesystem? Does the include directive only works for directories at
the root of mounted filesystems?

If these are the constraints of amanda, how can find a workaround to
solve my problem of backing up subsets of directories deep in the
directory structure of a filesystem?

Cheers,

Rodrigo

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