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List:       amanda-users
Subject:    RE: Amanda not backing up Veritas file systems correctly
From:       Jason.Brooks () windriver ! com
Date:       2004-05-28 7:12:12
Message-ID: A6F591E4C376B14C8B2D83D7628492D7B8FC82 () ala-mail99 ! wrs ! com
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You know, I am always amazed at the different things to be found in amanda's
source code.  I tried writing a more detailed "INTERNALS" document a while
ago: it did not work out.

I will try the "make getfsent".  thank you again for your time.

--jason
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:paul.bijnens@xplanation.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 28 May, 2004 00:02
> To: Jason.Brooks@windriver.com
> Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org
> Subject: Re: Amanda not backing up Veritas file systems correctly
> 
> Jason.Brooks@windriver.com wrote:
> 
> > Actually, I don't have those entries in /etc/vfstab.  I 
> will give that 
> > a try.
> > 
> > For future reference, in order to handle transient 
> filesystems such as 
> > this, it might be better off evaluating the output of 
> "mount" rather 
> > than the filesystem table.  Except I can't remember if it 
> gives FS info.
> 
> If you have amanda sources around, take a look in the dir 
> "client-src".
> There is file name "getfsent.c" which contains the code.
> The beginning comment is:
> /*
>   * You are in a twisty maze of passages, all alike.
>   * Geesh.
>   */
> And that becomes clear when trying to understand the next few 
> lines :-)
> 
> To help debugging this, you can compile getfsent into a 
> standalone program.  Just type "make getfsent" in that directory.
> When you run it as "./getfsent" it shows which blocks were 
> defined in the maze of passages and shows what amanda thinks 
> about each filesystem on the host.
> 
> 
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