On Monday 19 August 2002 12:00, Kevin Passey wrote:
>Thanks John
>
>That is what I am using.
>
>I only what to omit the /dumps folders.

Did you specify them as "./dumps" (without the quotes of course)
The missing leading dot in your line above says its your exclude 
file thats broken.   Tar's exludes are relative to the currently 
being processed directory, hence the leading ./

>I think I will have to create them in a separate partition.
>
>Thanks for that.
>
>Regards
>
>Kevin
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
From: John Ouellette [mailto:ouellet AT amnh DOT org]
>Sent: 19 August 2002 16:11
>To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>Subject: Re: Disklist - partial directory backup - advice please
>
>
>
>Hi Kevin,
>
>Are you using Amanda 2.4.3b3?  I think there is a bug in the
> 'exclude' lists in the definition of dumptypes (including the
> inline exclude lists like you're using) for that version.  The
> bug causes the dumps to fail, at least it does in my case.
>
>How to work around your problem without using exclude lists, I'm
> not sure, although you might try 'include' lists -- I'm not sure
> if the same bug affects these.
>
>J.

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