On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:48:50PM +0200, Mats Blomstrand wrote:
> > One suggestion is to stop assuming that what you do is correct.
> I am until proven otherwise!  :)
> 


> The bug is that the excludefile never reaches gtar. So what you write in
> it doesnt make any difference.  And its proven by reading the logfiles
> written in /tmp/amanda and the gnutar manual.
> 
> There is two sendsize-debug files. In this particulary example i will show
> you they are:
>   sendsize.20030521025626.debug
>   sendsize._home_blom.20030521025626.exclude
> 
> 
> Characteristics....
>   $ wc sendsize*20030521025626*
>   2414   21404  220537 sendsize.20030521025626.debug
>      1       1      52 sendsize._home_blom.20030521025626.exclude
>   2415   21405  220589 total
>   $
> 
> The sendsize._home_blom.20030521025626.exclude contains this:
> 
>   $ cat sendsize*20030521025626*exclude
>   /usr/local/amanda/etc/normal/exclude-file_home_blom
>   $

That looks like the bug is your disklist/amanda.conf entry.
Do you have exclude "file" instead of exclude "list".
The former is used to exclude a single file named in the argument.

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