If your /home/blom is too big, why not try and break that into subdirs
like the following:

host /home/blom/dir1 backup_type
host /home/blom/dir2 backup_type
host /home/blom/dir3 backup_type
host /home/blom/dir4 backup_type
host /home/blom/dir5 backup_type
etc...

You can use a crontab to update the contents of the disklist file just
before running amdump...

Fefo

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 04:28, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 03:16:06AM +0200, Mats Blomstrand wrote:
> > > Not a great explanation, but the best I can do on short notice.
> > 
> > Thanks for trying, but im still stuck.
> > 
> > Now i have tried ...
> >     /home/blom/05
> >     /home/blom/Mail
> > and
> >     ./05
> >     ./Mail
> > and
> >     05*
> >     Mail*
> > and
> >     ./05*
> >     ./Mail*
> > 
> > in the exclude-file. And none of them is working. I still get the "dump
> > larger than tape" message.
> > 
> > Any more ideas?
> 
> 
> Mats,
> One suggestion is to stop assuming that what you do is correct.
> 
> For example, your attempt to use the exclude feature did not work,
> so you assumed it was a bug.
> 
> Here is another possible one.  Maybe your directory, even minus what
> you are excluding, is larger than one tape.  I know, you "proved" your
> home directory is only 200MB in an earlier message by showing:
> 
>       $ du -sk /home/blom
>       6035616 /home/blom
>       $ ls -s /home/blom |head -1
>       total 221184
>       $
> 
> But what does "ls -s" report?  The size of the files displayed, not the
> size of all files in all subdirectories.  And even that does not consider
> all of your "dot" files and all the files in the "dot" subdirectories.
> 
> A better check would be to take the 6 GB reported by du and subtract the
> sizes shown by du -sk of each of your excluded subdirectories.
> 
> 
> Perhaps you don't have the exclude feature working properly, but other
> simple possibilities exist also.  Just a check, the exclude file is
> being found by amanda right?  Look in your debug files see if there are
> any messages about missing, wrong permissions, but being ignored.  Also,
> the exclude file is on the "client" being backed up right?  Not on the
> amanda server -- unless they are the same of course.
> 
> jl