Amanda-Users

Re: A question regarding backing up Window machines

2005-01-04 18:31:15
Subject: Re: A question regarding backing up Window machines
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: Amanda-Users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:17:31 -0500
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:42:13PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:02:49PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> > - You can exclude only one pattern.
>  
> Um, hello -- can you clue me in on this?  I am trying (lazily) to figure
> out why my excludes are ignored during backups, but work just fine when I
> run the same tar command by hand.  I need to add some debugging code, and
> just haven't found the time.  Have you clued into something I've missed?
> 

Joe,
could you give us your example exclude (note it is singlular) pattern
that fails with amanda dumps but works with smbclient.  Also the path
to file(s) on the window machine that is excluded properly by smbclient
but gets included by amanda.

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