----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Barcelo" <dbarcelo AT datajunction DOT com>
> I can't get amanda to exclude files.  I am defining them on the server 
> and not the client.  I have the following entries under my global 
> dumptype definition in amanda.conf:
> 
> define dumptype global {
>     comment "Global definitions"
>     index yes
>      record no
>      exclude "./tmp"
>      exclude "./proc"
>      exclude "./dev"
>      exclude "./dumps"
>      exclude "./var/lib/amanda"
>      exclude "./var/lib/spool/postfix"
> }

You forgot the "append" directive.  Without "append", you overwrite
the append list, and effectively only the last item will be excluded.
Something like:
     ...
    exclude append "./tmp"
    exclude append "./proc"
    ...