On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us:
> > > And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list".
> > >
> > > I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern
> > > "amanda.exclude".
> > >
> > > What you want is to exclude any file matching any pattern
> > > in the "list of patterns" in amanda.exclude.
> >
> > So I need to replace the line 'exclude file "amanda.exclude"' with
> >
> > exclude list "amanda.exclude"?  OK - I'll try that.  If it works it
> > should get me where I wanted to be.
>
> Exactly. I even do
>
> exclude list optional ".amanda.exclude"
>
I made the change and waited hopefully, but it makes no difference:

  planner: Incremental of borg:/home bumped to level 5.
  planner: borg /home 20060511 0 [dump larger than available tape space, 
25293759 KB, full dump delayed]

> so if I don't need to exclude anything from a DLE, I don't have to create
> the empty file.
>
> > I'd still like to understand, though, why it thought there was not enough
> > room.  I would have thought that there was plenty, even for a full
> > backup?
>
> Even though there's space on the disk, how big are your vtapes set to be?
> I'm guessing less than your directory size.
>
With the excludes there should be only 6-7GB.  Without them there is around 
25, as indicated above.  The vtapes are 4100Mb each, and spanning was working 
earlier.

I'm about to give up with amanda.  I just can't get this sorted.

Anne

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