I dont know if this would meet your needs, but a suggestion would be to make
a mirror of the windows box using cygwin and rsync.  rsync has some great
exclusion/inclusion features.

You could then backup the mirror.  

We do that here, and it is nice because I only need to run to tape in dire
emergency, otherwise I have a mirror which is a day or two lagging the
master.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy L. Mordkoff [mailto:jlm AT TataraSystems DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 8:32 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: excluding directories via samba
> 
> 
> I am backing up one windows machine via samba.I would like to 
> backup the entire machine except the /windows /temp and 
> /program files trees. Is there a way to do this? I don't want 
> to specify a bunch to dirs to get backed up because as soon 
> as I do, someone will create a new directory off the root and 
> put something important there :)
> 
> I am considering having it run a windows backup to a file 
> server and simply backing that up.
> 
> JLM
> 
>