On Thursday 09 September 2004 14:31, Andreas Lund wrote:
>I set my DLE up like this to try and split a 430Gb area so it can
> fit on my 40Gb tapes, similar to what's described in Chapter 18 of
> the ALPHA docs, under "the size-question":
>
>archimedes.atc.no       home-a          /mnt/san0  {
>        high-pri-tar
>        include "./home/[a]*"
>}       3
>
>This appeared to pass OK with amadmin but amcheck would complain
> about "no includes" although the wildcard is valid and matches
> actual disk contents.
>
>I had to change it like this for things to work as expected:
>
>archimedes.atc.no       home-a          /mnt/san0/home  {
>        high-pri-tar
>        include "./[a]*"
>}       3
>
>This works for my particular situation but it looks to me like a
> serious problem with how includes are parsed.
>
Not really, and I believe its not amanda, but tar that imposes the 
limits on this.  To tar, everything is relative to the directory its 
currently processing, so the correct syntax there is indeed the 
"./[a]*" (and the dbl quotes might even be optional.
>
>(Running Amanda 2.4.4p2 on i386-redhat-linux)
>
>
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