On Friday 25 July 2014 15:26:00 Debra S Baddorf did opine And Gene did reply: > I just create two DLEs > > mynode / backuptype > mynode /boot backuptype > > Then amdump myconfig ( or amdump myconfig mynode ) > will get both of them. Is this not an option for you?
That would completely hose amanda's ability to spread the levels of the backups out over the cycle in its attempt to make full use of the backup media available. I could do it, yes, but that is not what amanda is all about. It would not be a huge problem with vtapes, but for those using individual tapes, that would never fly unless you allowed amanda to use a virtually unlimited number of tapes when it is doing a level 0 backup. I am currently set for about 30Gb per vtape, and it will very occasionally use a few megs of the 2nd vtape. I'd have to let it use 9 or more of the 30 formatted with just 4 entries. 2 on this machine, and the / entries on my pair of cnc boxes. That backup would also take quite a few more hours to complete, currently in the 1:25 range. Thanks Deb. > Deb Baddorf > Fermilab > > On Jul 25, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > It turns out some of my backups for this machine will not be usable, > > particularly for a bare metal recovery on a new drive, due to a miss- > > understanding of the --one-filesystem option by tar-1.27, and 1.27.1 > > does not fix it. > > > > The problem is that this system is currently installed with two > > partitions, 3 actually if you count swap space. > > > > They are /boot, and / > > > > So tar refuses to back up a softlink that points to a directory/file > > that is in a different dir than the current disklist entry points > > to, EVEN THOUGH IT IS IN FACT on the same filesystem. > > > > The config I've been using for a decade and change uses that option > > command. Will removing it (--one-filesystem) from my config fix this > > missing links in the backup problem? Or will that result in its > > making a duplicate backup file of what is at the end of that > > softlink? > > > > IMNSHO, when tar encounters such a link, instead of making a backup > > of that file at the end of the link, it should backup the contents > > of the links text so that an amrecovery will re-create the link > > file. > > > > It is not doing that either, so how do, or can, I force tar to do > > that and result in a fully usable backup? > > > > This does not seem to me to be a violation of the one filesystem > > command, making sense ONLY if the link is to a different partition, > > which could be a different filesystem, which this present situation > > is most certainly not. Different directory yes, different > > filesystem, no. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
