> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:58:29PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > > > 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.
 
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:06:27PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> Your subject says "Window machines".
> 
> I assumed you were backing up samba shares.
> That uses smbclient with its "tar" option.
> 
> If you had meant the much less commonly used cygwin port of amanda,
> which does use gnutar, I thought you would have mentioned it.
> 
> Or maybe there is another possibility I haven't considered.
> Give me a hand here.
 
I'm sorry, I thought I was on the amanda mailing list, writing about the
amanda client.  No, I'm not talking about using a program to back up remote
shares - I am writing about the actual amanda client.

I'm a bit surprised by your negative response, and your assumption of an
indirect method of backup over the native client.  And whatever -- this
issue has been ignored by you guys for years now, why am I bothering? 

-- 
Joe Rhett
Senior Geek
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