Charles Curley wrote:

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:06:57AM -0700, Glenn English wrote:

(Debian binary Amanda install, tar, Linux)

One of the things I back up is the DMZ logging server's /var/log
directory. The backup fails fairly pretty regularly because that's a
very busy place, even in the middle of the night. This must be a very
common problem. How can I get around it?

An excludes file. For /var I have one called excludes.var on the
target machine:

# cat /etc/amanda/DailySet1/excludes.var
./ftp/pub/*.updates*
./cache/yum/*
./cache/apt/*
./named/chroot/proc/*
./spool/squid/*
./www/html/jdk.docs/*

Then in the tape server's amanda.conf, set up a dump type like so:

define dumptype comp-root-tar-var {
    comp-root-tar
    comment "Root partitions with compression, special for /var"
    exclude list "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/excludes.var"
}

Then in your disk list, use it:

dragon.localdomain /var comp-root-tar-var

I got the sense that he wanted to back them up.

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