Hi,
your exclude-list has wrong syntax.
it has to be relative to the root of the filesystem you backup.
it should read like this

./media
./tmp
./var/spool/postfix

Christoph

Nick Danger schrieb:
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Oddly, the sendbackup...exclude tells it to exclude the /var/spool/postfix so Im not sure they are even in the error list. The man page for tar says it should be '--exclude-from=file', so maybe there needs to be an '=' in the argument list above?

   amanda@tesla:/tmp/amanda>  more sendbackup._.20050126203414.exclude
   /media
   /tmp
   /var/spool/postfix