Hi, Gene Heskett,

on Freitag, 23. Jänner 2004 at 23:40 you wrote to amanda-users:

GH> Greetings;

GH> I just setup an exclude file to skip that 2.2 gig subdir of /amanda,
GH> the one with all the daily copies of the archived indices etc in it.

GH> But now the other "client" is complaining it cannot find the exclude
GH> file!

GH> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
GH> --------------------------------
GH> ERROR: gene: [Can't open exclude file '/amanda/.config-bak': No such
GH> file or directory]

GH> ---
GH> Where "gene" is the firewall box, and of course that whole /amanda
GH> tree doesn't exist on that machine.  Will this cause an exit, or will
GH> it just bitch a lot?  Or would I be better off to just mv that subdir
GH> down to /, rewrite the scripts accordingly and do away with that 
GH> subdir structure entirely?

Fast fix:

gene# mkdir /amanda
gene# touch .config-bak

Otherwise you will get loads of noise.

How does your dumptype look like?
How did you tell AMANDA to exclude?
-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at