Amanda-Users

Re: A question regarding backing up Window machines

2005-01-05 19:11:00
Subject: Re: A question regarding backing up Window machines
From: Joe Rhett <jrhett AT meer DOT net>
To: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:58:29 -0800
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:02:49PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> > > - You can exclude only one pattern.
 
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:42:13PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > 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?
 
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:17:31PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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.
 
No such animal.  I never said smbclient, I said tar.  The system is running
the amanda client.

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Joe Rhett
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