Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

Jose M Calhariz <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Jul 2021 19:27:02 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

I am using a .amanda-exclude.list per DLE on the top of it and is not
broken for me.  I can share my settings if it help.

Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz


On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 05:13:19PM +0000, Debra S Baddorf wrote:
> On the other hand:     I also used  .amanda-exclude-list
> at the top of any DLE that needed an exclude list.
> 
> However, they broke a few years ago.  I don’t know if that was my
> version of Linux  or my version of amanda.
> 
> So trying a globalized version is a good idea.
> 
> Deb Baddorf
> Fermilab
> 
> > On Jul 9, 2021, at 8:28 AM, Kees Meijs | Nefos <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Charles,
> > 
> > Thank you for your prompt answer.
> > 
> > On 09-07-2021 15:10, Charles Curley wrote:
> >> 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"
> >> }
> > 
> > Well that's easy: I was under the impression one must have a excludes file per DLE. I was wrong.
> > 
> >> 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#
> > 
> > Yes that's FAT32 and yes the filename is invalid and therefore a problem.
> >> -- Does anybody read signatures any more?
> > 
> > Yes, I just did. :-)
> > 
> > Thanks! Will try with a general exclude file in a different location.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kees
> 
> 
> 

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