To: "Jeff Portwine" <jdport AT michigandrill DOT com>
Cc: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: need regex help


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On Thu, August 24, 2006 10:40 am, Jeff Portwine wrote:

I want amanda to back up multiple home directories, but I don't want to
back up everything in /home. I tried using  syntax like this:

myserver      /dev/sdc1 { server-user-tar include
"./home/(user1|user2|user3|user4)*"
}

I can't swear this would work, but this is how I'd write the regex if I
were doing something similar in Perl or grep:

"./home/user[1234]*"

-Ken

Amcheck didn't have any problems with it but when the backup actually
ran, I got the following messages in the dump report:

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
frank.veritime.com  /dev/sdc1  lev 0  STRANGE

FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:


/--  myserver /dev/sdc1 lev 0 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [myserver:/dev/sdc1 level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/gtar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gtar -f... -
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: ./home/(user1|user2|user3|user4)*: Warning: Cannot stat: No such
file or directory | Total bytes written: 10240 (10kB, ?B/s)
sendbackup: size 10
sendbackup: end
\--------




Did I do the regex incorrectly, or is there a better way to accomplish
this?

Thanks,
Jeff