>I just added to exclude list for that entry several sub directories and 
>now it looks like:
>
>/home/max> cat .amanda.excludes
>/home/max/o/mprj/PDF
>/home/max/o/mprj/NMT
>...

You might want to get a copy of Amanda 2.4.3 and read docs/EXCLUDE
(which you can do without installing anything).  Exclusion list entries
need to be relative to the thing being backed up.  Since you are backing
up /home/max, the entries should be:

  ./o/mprj/PDF
  ./o/mprj/NMT

and so on.

>Konstantin.

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, ITaP/RCS, jrj AT purdue DOT edu