On Friday 16 August 2002 05:17, Kevin Passey wrote:
>Or can I change the conf file and put it as /usr/dumps/amanda.
>
>When I then backup /usr/ I would then exclude or include /dumps in
> my disklist file.
>
>Or have I got it completely wrong
>
>Thanks anyway
>
>Kevin

You can use the exclude file if you're using tar, in which case you 
can put it where the most free space is.  Mine's in /usr/dumps as I 
had 27 gigs free there a year ago when I set this one up, and is so 
entered in amanda.conf IIRC.

The exclude files entries are in relative format, meaning that the 
entry line for excluding /usr/dumps looks like './dumps/' without 
the quotes.  The leading ./ is very important.

AIUI, dump users will need to setup a seperate partition and leave 
that filesystem out of the disklist in order to achieve that 
exclusion.

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