On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:34:32PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:03:21PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:15:35PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:27:30PM -0600, Deb Baddorf wrote:
> > > 
> > > > And did you put a file   "exclude.gtar"   in there?
> > > 
> > > Yes, I did, and that got rid of the message.  But if amanda needs this
> > > file, why doesn't it just create it?
> > 
> > Because it is a file you create specifying what you want to exclude.
> > If you don't want to use it, don't list it in amanda.conf.
> 
> It wasn't necessary with 2.4.2  If it's necessary for 2.4.3, then why
> isn't it installed with or created by that version?

Perhaps it is an added extra check that that should have been in 2.4.2.
Extra checking is not a bad thing.

The file is not necessary.  Only if you leave the line uncommented in
the dumptype, then the file is necessary.  But an empty file does no good
and amanda has no idea what you want to put in there so it can not be
populated automatically.  The amcheck error reminds you, create and put
something into the file or get rid of the line in the dumptype.

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