2005/5/15, Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>:
> 
> It sounds as if you believe an exclude pattern of "./foo" will
> exclude any file and/or directory containing the string 'foo'.
> Not so, "./foo" will only match, and only exclude one item.
> It may be a file called 'foo' under the mount point or it
> may be a directory in the same location.  If 'foo' is a file,
> that is all that is excluded.  If 'foo' is a directory, then
> the directory and everything under it is excluded.  No other
> directories or files are affected.
> 

Ah !

The doc says:

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Exclude any file or directory that ends in ".log" e.g. ppp.log, XFree86.0.log

./*.log

Exclude any file or directory with the string "log" e.g. logfile,
maillog, syslog, ppp.log, XFree86.0.log

*/*log*

Exclude any file or directory that starts with string "cron" and ends
in ".gz" e.g. cron.1.gz, cron.2.gz, log/cron.1.gz

./*cron*.gz
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You mean those examples will NOT work in a directory other than "."
(The DLE i'm backing up) ?

There is noy way to tell amanda to skip all files ending in ".mp3" for
example, whatever the directory they may reside in ?

Thanks