A couple of options: 

1. Explain to your users that anything that doesn't land under \My Documents
is (a) target for deletion, and (b) will never be backed up. 

2. List all of the directories in the root (\Program Files, \My Documents,
\temp, etc) as separate disk list entries, plus whatever you need under the
directories that have to be skipped (\winnt\system32\profiles). It will make
your disk list longer, but catch more data. 

3. Tell users that any data they care about has to be stored or copied to a
server. This can also be handy for workstation rebuilds, which can be
reduced to loading a Ghost image.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ben [mailto:ben AT stonehenge-net DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 5:40 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: backup of windows machine question
> 
> 
> we've been using amanda happily for half a year now, and are 
> trying to add
> some windows machines to the disklist.  it seems that amanda 
> cannot back
> up system files that are open, which is fine.  My question is whether
> anyone has found an easy way to keep amanda from trying to 
> back these up?
> My users have fairly fixed work habbits, which include 
> spamming files all
> over the place, so i was hoping i could just tell amanda "ignore
> everything in this directory".
> 
> thanks,
> 
> ben
>