Dear Joshua Baker-LePain,

Once you wrote about "Re: different backup for sub directory":
JBL> > Until now, the best thing which came into my mind was doing something
JBL> > like:
JBL> > 
JBL> > /usr/bin/    full
JBL> > /usr/etc/    full
JBL> > /usr/lib/    full
JBL> > /usr/local/  incremental
JBL> > /usr/sbin/   full
JBL> > 
JBL> > I don't like it much since, it might cause me to miss something
JBL> > important (say /usr/opt/ has been added by another admin).  Of course I
JBL> > could write a perl script to make proper listings, but there might be a
JBL> > better way.  Is there?
JBL> 
JBL> Just add:
JBL> 
JBL> exclude "./local"
JBL> 
JBL> to your dumptype for /usr.  See the example disklist and/or amanda.conf 
JBL> for examples.

Thanks a lot.  Now I'll go and think why I didn't think about it
earlier. :)  That's exactly what I needed.

-- 
Best regards,
  Leonid Mamtchenkov, RHCE
  System Administrator
  Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.