Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 12:05:52 +0200
Kees Meijs | Nefos <[email protected]> wrote:

> Using Amanda 3.5.1-2+b2 (Debian) I've configured:
> 
> > exclude list optional    ".amanda-excludes.gtar"  

I wonder why you put the excludes file in with the stuff being backed
up? I usually put my excludes files in with my amanda files, and refer
to them with a fully qualified path:

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

I'm no expert on UEFI, but it strikes me as asking for problems to put
anything other than UEFI files in /boot/efi. I vaguely recall that that
is a FAT file system, in which case the file name may be a problem.


Also, it's rather hard to diagnose what is likely a permissions issue
without knowing what the relevant permissions are.

root@hawk:/etc/amanda/DailySet1# ll excludes.var
-rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 138 Mar 26  2018 excludes.var
root@hawk:/etc/amanda/DailySet1# 

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