On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:13:03PM -0400, Luc Lalonde wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> Would there be a way to force excludes from the client side?  I want to 
> enforce an exclude list regardless of wether the exclude directive states on 
> the server amanda.conf file.
> 
> One way I thought of doing this is by writting a shell wrapper for tar on the 
> client and using it in the configure script:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/amanda --with-user=amanda --with-group=backup \
> --with-gnutar=/opt/bin/tar-wrapper
> 
>  The wrapper would have a line like:
> 
> /bin/tar -exclude-from /etc/amanda/exclude.gtar $@
> 
> Any other suggestions?

If you have any administrative control on the server, how about
having in your dumptype an exclude list "optional" line that
references the same file, or a file local to the DLE root point.
The the client machine can have it or not.

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