On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:57:23PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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.

You can also use the optional argument to exclude specification.

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