On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 at 9:53pm, James Marcinek wrote

> I'm finally starting my backup on the server with the large file system. I'm
> receiving errors and the DLE did not run as the excludes never took affect.
> Here's excerpts from the amdump log:
> 
> "/etc/amanda/normal/disklist", line 21: dump type parameter expected
*snip*

'amcheck' will catch this type of error.  You *have* to get your config to 
pass amcheck, or there's no chance of amdump working.

> servername /ROOT_DIR / {
> root-tar
> exclude "./boot"
> append exclude "./home"
> append exclude "./opt"
> append exclude "./usr"
> append exclude "./var"
> }

That needs to be "exclude append", as was pointed out.

> servername /var {
> root-tar
> exclude "/var/holding"
> }

That exclude needs to be "./holding".

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