On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:26:31PM +0200, listrcv enlightened us:
> Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> 
> >>As promised, I updated the wiki docs on this topic, see
> >>http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Backing_up_large_amounts_of_data.
> >
> >
> >Thanks for contributing, I just added some minor corrections.
> 
> Thanks, that looks better now :) One thing I think that is missing is an 
> explanation of the difference between:
> 
>   include
>   include append
> 
>   exclude
>   exclude append
> 
> I would guess that 'append' tells amanda something like 'you should 
> append this to the previous dumps of that mountpoint rather than 
> considering it seperate', but I don't know. Also, the self-consistency 
> is dubious since amanda seems to consider /home/wanda as a part of /home 
> --- or maybe not. It would be nice if someone could shed a light on the 
> logic behind that.
> 

It merely means "append this to the previous {in,ex}clude I just gave you".
Makes for easier reading. If you did:

  include ./foo
  include ./bar

your include list would be "./bar" (second include overrides the first)

If you did:

  include ./foo
  include append ./bar

your include list would be "./foo ./bar" (second include is appended to the
first)

Matt
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