Introduction
There are times when data needs to be excluded from a backup. When these times
-arise be confident that AMANDA has this capability. (Actually it's not AMANDA,
-it's tar.) There are three ways of excluding data in an AMANDA backup:
+arise be confident that Amanda has this capability. (Actually it's not Amanda,
+it's tar.) There are three ways of excluding data in an Amanda backup:
* Exclude an individual item explicitly in the dumptype
* Utilize an "Exclude List"
* Do not include the data in the disklist
-This document is based on AMANDA 2.4.2 and some of this might not work with
+This document is based on Amanda 2.4.2 and some of this might not work with
older versions. This was compiled from my personal experience and with help
from the members of the amanda-users mailing list (mailto://amanda-
users@amanda.org) when I was originally setting this up, to whom I wish to
Please Read
As far as I am able to tell the only way to exclude files or directories with
-AMANDA is to use GNU-tar as the dump program (others?). The file system dump
+Amanda is to use GNU-tar as the dump program (others?). The file system dump
programs provided with unix systems (e.g. dump, ufsdump) get data at a raw
drive level and generally do not allow exclusion of specific files or
directories.
question in the disklist. This option may not be suitable for everyone's needs
and can confuse the issue some, so I have elected to include this mechanism in
its own section named Do_not_include_the_data_in_the_disklist.
-For the purpose of this document an AMANDA backup configuration named "exclude-
+For the purpose of this document an Amanda backup configuration named "exclude-
test" will be used. The machine that contains the tape drive which receives
data to be archived will be referred to as "SERVER". The machine that data is
being archived from will be referred to as "CLIENT". These two systems are
Note
-When AMANDA attempts to exclude a file or directory it does so relative to the
+When Amanda attempts to exclude a file or directory it does so relative to the
area being archived. For example if /var is in your disklist and you want to
exclude /var/log/somefile, then your exclude file would contain ./log/somefile.
You may use one exclude file in multiple dumptypes without any restriction.
Before We Begin
The first step that should be taken is to verify that backups are currently
-working. Connect to SERVER and run amcheck as your AMANDA user, to verify that
+working. Connect to SERVER and run amcheck as your Amanda user, to verify that
there are no errors in the current setup.
$ amcheck -cl CLIENT
Output should look something like below for success:
- AMANDA Tape Server Host Check
+ Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
/path/to/holding-disk: 4771300 KB disk space available, that's plenty.
- AMANDA Backup Client Hosts Check
+ Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.084 seconds, 0 problems found.
The easiest way to exclude a file or directory is to specify it with the
"exclude" option in the dumptype. This option accepts an argument of the file
-or directory to be excluded. AMANDA allows only one exclude option in any
+or directory to be excluded. Amanda allows only one exclude option in any
dumptype at a time.
Note
-UPDATE: Recent AMANDA-releases bring the option "exclude append" which enables
+UPDATE: Recent Amanda-releases bring the option "exclude append" which enables
the administrator to define more than one exclusion-pattern within one dumptype
without using a exclude-list. Please look at the amanda.conf.5-manpage for
details.
}
Next run amcheck again to verify that there are no problems with the revised
-AMANDA configuration. If the data is not being excluded as expected please see
+Amanda configuration. If the data is not being excluded as expected please see
the Troubleshooting section below. This completes the setup of excluding an
individual item in the dumptype.
$ mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude
$ cd /usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude
-Next create the exclude list for AMANDA to use. You can name the exclude file
+Next create the exclude list for Amanda to use. You can name the exclude file
anything you wish it to be. Create a file, and in this file place all paths to
files and directories that are to be excluded. Keeping with the /var example,
assume that /var/log/XFree86.0.log, and /var/log/maillog need to be excluded.
$ chmod 644 /usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude/exclude-filename
This concludes the necessary configuration on the client.
-Connect to SERVER and cd to the exclude-test AMANDA configuration directory.
-Edit the AMANDA configuration file e.g. amanda.conf. Add an entry similar to
+Connect to SERVER and cd to the exclude-test Amanda configuration directory.
+Edit the Amanda configuration file e.g. amanda.conf. Add an entry similar to
the following line, to the dumptype for the client in question, where the
exclude-filename is the file that was created on CLIENT in the step above
including the quotes. For example:
}
Save the file. Run amcheck again to verify that there are no problems with the
-revised AMANDA configuration. If amcheck succeeds then run amdump to verify the
+revised Amanda configuration. If amcheck succeeds then run amdump to verify the
data is being excluded correctly. If the data is not being excluded as expected
please see the Troubleshooting section below. This completes the setup of an
exclude list.
Do not include the data in the disklist
-AMANDA uses disklist entries to define which directories or partitions should
+Amanda uses disklist entries to define which directories or partitions should
be archived. This allows us to exclude data by just not placing the data in
question in the disklist. Assume that there is a disk mounted on /example. The
directory /example has five subdirectories "a", "b", "c", "d", and "e". The
CLIENT /examples/b exclude-test
CLIENT /examples/c exclude-test
-Run amcheck to verify that AMANDA is working correctly. If the data is not
+Run amcheck to verify that Amanda is working correctly. If the data is not
being excluded as expected please see the Troubleshooting section below. This
completes the setup of using a disklist to exclude data.
Wildcard Expansion
-AMANDA has the ability to use wildcard expansion while excluding data as
+Amanda has the ability to use wildcard expansion while excluding data as
implemented by tar(1). The only places that wildcard expansion is allowed is in
the "exclude" option in the dumptype, or in the exclude list. Some simple
examples:
Broken gnutar?
There are versions of GNU-tar that do not correctly exclude data. Version 1.12
-(plus the AMANDA patches from http://www.amanda.org) are known to work
+(plus the Amanda patches from http://www.amanda.org) are known to work
correctly, as does version 1.13.19 (and later). Anything else is questionable.
Note
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