On Saturday 21 September 2002 13:05, Martin Schwarz wrote:
>Hi Christoph,
>
>On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:32:03PM +0200, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
>> your exclude-list syntax is not correct....
>
>[...]
>
>> > [/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar]
>> > /disk-c1/martin/mac
>>
>> this should read
>>
>> ./mac

Correct.
>>
>> it is relative to the root stated in your disklist-entry.
>
>ah, so absolute paths are not possible here? Using an absolute
> path for the exclude-list file in the dumptype definition as I
> did, would then lead to the exclusion af ANY directory named
> "mac" on ANY filesystem that uses this dumptype? Not what I
> wanted...

No, the absolute path spec will be ignored.  However, if you have a 
"mac" directory you don't want skipped thats in a different 
filesystem/partition, then one can copy the dumptype specification 
to a slightly different name right there in your amanda.conf, and 
point the disklist entry to that one, which uses a different 
exclude file, or none at all.

>The solution seems to use a _relative_ definition of the
> exclude-list file as well:
>
>[amanda.conf]
>exclude-list ".amanda-exclude.gtar"

I don't know if that will work or not, I haven't tried it here.  I 
know, thats my fault :-)

>and
>[/disk-c1/martin/.amanda-exclude.gtar]
>./mac
>
>I'll try this and see if it works.
>
>Many thanks for your help,
>Martin

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