Dan L. Ostrom wrote:

        Running the command:

tar cvf /tmp/mytar *200300*

does just tar up the files requested. Since amdump is running the same tar command (yes, tar is gtar here), shouldn't the disklist file entries work? Or am I misunderstanding

what the include/exclude statements are for or how they function?

The nice thing about open source software is that you can dive into the
code to find out.

And if you don't want to read the soure code, the exact command is
found in /tmp/amanda/runtar.TIMESTAMP.debug.

Amanda uses the --file-from directive of gnutar.  Each entry in that
file is a file or directory expanded *by amanda* from the pattern
that you give (hence the restriction of one level expansion only,
as the man page indicates).



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