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Re: Excluding a directory with spaces and '!' and ')' etc in the name.

2003-04-08 11:19:38
Subject: Re: Excluding a directory with spaces and '!' and ')' etc in the name.
From: Stephen Carville <carville AT cpl DOT net>
To: Amanda Users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:48:29 -0700
On Monday 07 April 2003 09:32 am, you wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 08:35:16AM -0800, Stephen Carville wrote:
> > How can I exclude a directory on a Snap server named:
> > 
> >     Temporary (Not Backed Up!)
> > 
> > I tried adding to disklist the line:
> > 
> >     exclude "Temporary (Not Backed Up!)"
> > 
> > but that seems to cause sendsize to send the error:
> > 
> >     REQ packet is bogus: extra text at end
> > 
> > The share is mounted using samba and I am using amanda 2.4.3p2
> 
> If you haven't already, I would try escaping the spaces, 
parentheses,
> and exclamation mark like:
> 
>       exclude "Temporary\ \(Not\ Backed\ Up\!\)"
> 
> I would imagine that sendsize is passed the value between the 
quotes,
> but not the quotes themselves, on the command line, which would make
> that directory name show up as 4 separate arguments.
> 
> I'm not certain, but I hope that helps

Thank you but that didn't work  Still get the same error. 

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