On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 12:00:44PM -0400, Lei Zhong enlightened us:
> Thanks.  I changed my disklist file to "amandtest.applimation.com
> /amtest comp-root-tar".  Now it didn't pass the amcheck.  Here is the
> error:
> 
>  
> 
> ERROR: amandtest.applimation.com: [Can't open exclude file
> '/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar': No such file or directory] Client
> check: 1 host checked in 0.044 seconds, 1 problem found
> 
>  
> 
> Exclude.gtar is an empty file, but does exist in that directory.  Amanda
> user has read access to the file.  Please advise.  Thanks.

It must exist on the _client_.

The other option is to change the dumptype definition:

define dumptype root-tar {
    global
    program "GNUTAR"
    comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
    compress none
    index
    exclude list optional ".amanda.exclude"
    priority low
}

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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