On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:09:57PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > 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,

In your first posting on this thread you deleted the OP's comments,
starting with Paul B's response to the OP.  That led me to believe,
since I did not go back to the archive to examine the thread, that
you were the OP.  I did not realize you were jumping in on another,
windows-related thread with a new, somewhat unrelated question
(at least as to OS).

If you'd like to continue exploring your situation I'd suggest you
start a new thread and I'd like to see the same things I asked for
earlier.  You still could have shown them to us even given my
mistaken assumption that you were dealing with a windows client.

Namely things like:

  - disklist
  - filesystem organization
  - exclude file or patterns that amanda does not do what you want
  - tar command that does (including where you execute from)
  - ??? whatever you think might help


BTW what issue has the list been ignoring?

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