Re: [Networker] Directive to exclude a single directory

Len Philpot,

I had the same problem and previously posted in the group. I found out that
it was necessary to restart networker daemon and gst database.

regards,
long
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Len Philpot <Len.Philpot AT cleco DOT com> 
wrote:

> Sounds simple, and I've done it before, but this time it isn't doing the
> job.
>
> On a particular Solaris 10 x86 box, I want to exclude the /system (meta)
> directory tree from backups. I first customized the standard "Unix with
> compression" server-side directive it's using to include :
>
> << /system >>
>        skip: .?* *
>
> ...but still see this in the completion reports :
>
> * <client>:/system/object save: readdir overflow error, backup of
> directory cannot continue
> * <client>:/system/object save: readdir overflow error, backup of
> directory cannot continue
> * <client>:/system/object save: readdir overflow error, backup of
> directory cannot continue
>
> ...etc. for hundreds of lines. So, I added this to the top of the
> directive, hoping it would prevent Networker from even attempting to read
> the directory :
>
> << / >>
>        skip: tmp_mnt
>        +skip: core
>        +skip: system
>        +compressasm: .
>
> "+skip: system" is the new line. However, it still apparently attempts to
> read /system. Is a client-side directive needed, or will it even make any
> difference? What am I overlooking?
>
> Thanks.
>
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