Re: Excluding more than one file when backing up a windows client
2003-03-01 02:03:19
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:14:05PM -0500, Amanda wrote:
> Hi All-
>
> Does anyone know how to do this? I'm using 2.4.4, and have read the
> docs/SAMBA file and see the note about only being able to use "exclude"
> (not "exclude list") when backing up a windows client using smbclient.
>
> Is that the final answer? Is there no method whatsoever available for
> excluding more than one file per client machine?
>
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> ... ." I also see from way back (year 2000)
> some discussion on amanda-hackers about a patch for doing "exclude list"
> with smbclient, but I'm skeptical about trying to patch my 2.4.4 sources
> with a patch that old---especially without much testimony on its quality.
>
> I'd love to hear some feedback on this.
I was going to point you to that discussion. I've not used it (samba and I
do not get along well) but the concept sounded solid. smbclient will take
multiple files to exclude on the command line, but not a file argument
listing files to exclude. So it was necessary to take the list and convert
it into command line arguments.
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