On Monday 28 July 2014 18:48:55 Nathan Stratton Treadway did opine And Gene did reply: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 18:00:35 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > created them for me. It did not because they were not in the backup, > > they were skipped due to the perceived by tar, different filesystem > > error. > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 13:29:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I can do that, but how else can I kill about 60 lines of > > amdump/amreport mewling about the skipped links? > > Assuming you are specifically talking about the "directory is on a > different filesystem; not dumped" messages generated by tar 1.27: this > was discussed here on the amanda-users list back in June, in the thread > with a Subject of > sendbackup: 118: strange(?): /bin/tar: ./dev: directory is on a > different filesystem; not dumped" > > (Here's a link to discussion in the MARC archive of the list: > http://marc.info/?l=amanda-users&m=140173566600897&w=2 > ) > > Note that as of Amanda 3.3.6 this message is included in the default > NORMAL list for the amgtar application. > > Presumably, if you want to completely suppress these messages from your > reports, you could manually configure an IGNORE line instead. (See > "man amgtar" for more info.) > Thanks Nathan. I just added 4 more lines to my "excludes" file, put that option --one-file-system back in amgtar & we'll see what gets upset tonight.
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
