amdump issues involving wildcards--quoted wildcards appear to be sent to


Hi, all.

I have an issue which is starting to vex me. I'm backing up a mailspool on a Sun UltraSPARC 5 which is getting rather big. Plus I have todo it in such a way that causes the interface not to get upset. If Istuff a lot of data through it, it'll shut the interface down, but it'llcome back up. To combat this, I'm doing small sections of it throughoutthe backup session. Apparently, the issue I'm observing is a knownissue of UltraSPARC 5 boxen.

The mail spool uses a hashed directory setup with directories numberedfrom 0 through 499 with directories within, much like Maildirs, but not.Here's a snippet from my disklist:


trillian /var/spool/PO/mailbox/0-99 /var/spool/PO/mailbox {
  user-tar
  include "./[0-9]/" "./[1-9][0-9]/"
} 1
.
.
.
trillian /var/spool/PO/mailbox/100-199 /var/spool/PO/mailbox {
  user-tar
  include "./1[0-9][0-9]/"
} 1
.
.
.
trillian /var/spool/PO/mailbox/100-199 /var/spool/PO/mailbox {
  user-tar
  include "./2[0-9][0-9]/"
} 1
.
.
.
(etc)

Near as I can figure, the commands being sent to the other machine(using oversimplified flags for the sake of brevity) is something to theeffect of:


cd /var/spool/PO/mailbox
tar cvf - "./1[0-9][0-9]/"

If I hand-run the tar command without the quotes, it'll work just fine.However the moment I use these configuration stanzas, it won't work.Advice comes partly from the example disklist, partly from a few poststo the mailing list about wildcards.

The rest of the backups work fine, including one other for this hostwhich specifically excludes the mailbox hierarchy.

My conjecture of what's happening is that the gtar command is being runwith quotes around the items in the "include" statement in my disklistfile, causing gtar to not perform any globbing and, instead, look forany pathname with actual brackets and globbing characters in it.


Any suggestions?

Thanks!

--Ian.

amdump issues involving wildcards--quoted wildcards appear to be sent to, and thus being interpreted literally by, gtar