On Friday 28 January 2005 19:09, 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?

Thats a good question Joe.  We're asking for system details so that 
one of us might be able to help, and you are giving us invective 
instead.

Its possible that one of us here, may have walked on that ground 
before, and could possibly offer some help.  But without enough 
details to be able to picture the system, its not going to happen.

Your choice...

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