On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:14:05PM -0500, Amanda wrote:
> Hi All-
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this?  I'm using 2.4.4, and have read the 
> docs/SAMBA file and see the note about only being able to use "exclude" 
> (not "exclude list") when backing up a windows client using smbclient.
> 
> Is that the final answer?  Is there no method whatsoever available for 
> excluding more than one file per client machine?
> 
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> ... ."  I also see from way back (year 2000) 
> some discussion on amanda-hackers about a patch for doing "exclude list" 
> with smbclient, but I'm skeptical about trying to patch my 2.4.4 sources 
> with a patch that old---especially without much testimony on its quality.
> 
> I'd love to hear some feedback on this.


I was going to point you to that discussion.  I've not used it (samba and I
do not get along well) but the concept sounded solid.  smbclient will take
multiple files to exclude on the command line, but not a file argument
listing files to exclude.  So it was necessary to take the list and convert
it into command line arguments.

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