Thanks for your response. Here are amanda versions which I am running on
tape server:

Tape Server (RH9)
amanda-client-2.4.3-4
amanda-server-2.4.3-4
amanda-2.4.3-4

On machine1 (RH7.3)
amanda-2.4.2p2-7
amanda-client-2.4.2p2-7

And yes. /h2 exists on machine1. I now named my DLE like this:

machine1 /h2 {
    comp-user-tar
    exclude "./Appleshare" "./apple"
}

But even when I run amcheck.. it gives this error:

-bash-2.05b$ /usr/sbin/amcheck -c DailySet1

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
WARNING: machine1:/h2 does not support multiple exclude
WARNING: machine1: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
Client check: 3 hosts checked in 30.071 seconds, 1 problem found

Thanks again!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Bijnens" <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: "Rohit" <rohit AT genetechindia DOT com>; "AMANDA Users"
<amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: Help


> Rohit wrote:
> >
> > my disklist entry looks like this:
> >
> > machine1 /ha2 /h2 {
> >   comp-user-tar
> >   exclude "./Appleshare" "./apple"
> > }
>
> Does "/h2" on machine1 exist? Or is it named "/ha2"?
> Why do you have a different name here?
> The possibility to give a label to the share is
> to do something like:

> machine1 /home /snapshot/home comp-user-tar
>
> Here you make a backup of the the filesystem "/home"
> but you you do this by backing up the snapshot filesystem
> mounted under /snapshot/home.
>
> Or something like this:
>
> machine1 /homeAN /home {
> comp-user-tar
> include "./[a-nA-N]*"
> }
> machine1 /homeREST /home {
> comp-user-tar
> exclude "./[a-nA-N]*"
> }
>
> Here you make a backup of the same share twice, but with
> a complementing include/exclude option.  Handy to split
> a large filesystem into multiple DLE's.
>
> But labeling a DLE different than it's physical name, is
> just plain confusing.  Which one is real?
>
>
> > machine1 /Label-Group1 //meosis/users {
> >  comp-user-tar
> >  exclude "./user1" "./user2" "./user3" "./user4"
> > }
>
> Here you have a samba-share on host meosis, to be backed
> up by smbclient on machine1.  (samba implementation for amanda
> cannot do multiple excludes (yet)
>
> Is that what you want?  Is smbclient compiled in on the amanda
> software on "machine1"?
>
> It also helps specifying which version of amanda (on server and client)
> you are using.
>
>
> >
> > Where could I have gone wrong?
>
> In reading the docs?   :-)
>
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