Amanda-Users

Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-03 05:10:47
Subject: Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 22:57:48 -0400
On Thursday 02 June 2005 17:16, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>Joe Rhett wrote:
>> In the meantime, can you confirm "exclude file" versus "exclude
>> list" ? Someone else reported a different syntax that conflicts
>> with the man page, but actually makes more sense to the naked eye.
>>  This may be a documentation problem.
>
>The documentation is correct:
>
>    exclude file "./some*thing"
> this excludes all the files matching name "some*thing"
>    exclude list "/some/file"
> /some/file on the client contains a list of patterns
> to be excluded

I'd argue that point, I'm using 'file' to specify a file that contains 
a list, and its working just fine.


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