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Re: And a couple more questions

2003-02-28 10:59:22
Subject: Re: And a couple more questions
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: John Oliver <joliver AT john-oliver DOT net>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:38:12 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 at 2:29pm, John Oliver wrote

> 1) To exclude a directory that isn't on the host running the amanda
> server, is it sufficient to touch .amanda.exludes in that directory?

No.  If you specify an exclude list in a dumptype, then that file must 
exist on any clients with DLEs using that dumptype.  Inside that file is a 
list of what you want excluded.  So, if you use a relative path to specify 
the exclude list, you can use the same file name in several DLEs.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


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