Dale,
You can specify any directory. Amanda won't cross partition
boundries though, so if you specify / you won't get /var
if it's on it's own partition.

Nick

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 Nick Russo   email: nick AT cs.uchicago DOT edu   phone: 773.702.3438
    Computer Science Department   The University of Chicago
     Associate Director of Computing Systems, Systems Lead

On 3 Sep 2002, Dale Clapperton (lists) wrote:

> Hi all
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> Potentially stupid question..  Does AMANDA support backing up only a
> certain directory on a host (ie /var/log for example) or only whole
> partitions (ie /var) ??
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> Couldnt seem to find an answer to this on the site or in the FAQ, and
> all the examples only seem to refer to partitions.
> 
> Thanks
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> Dale
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