Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:52:25PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> 
>>A long term problem with samba backup is that exclude can only include
>>on file.
>>
>>An alternative might be to allow amanda.conf to configure certain
>>ignore statements.  That would allow me to skip pagefile.sys error
>>messages from emailed status.  I get so many error messages, most of
>>them from samba, that it is unlikely that I will catch real errors.
>>
>>With a configurable statement to ignore certain errors, there is a
>>chance that I will find real errors.
>>
>>I believe that the current ignore list is compiled into amanda, though
>>I don't know where it comes from.
>>
> 
> 
> client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c
> 
> and yes, it is easily extensible.
> 

The other possibility would be that someone takes the effort to make use
of the "new" multiple-exclusion-functionality of Samba, that exists
since 3.0.4 or so (I was the one "voting" for the addition of that
particular patch back then ...).

Maybe something for the new contributors.

Stefan