On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:52:25PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> A long term problem with samba backup is that exclude can only include
> on file.
> 
> An alternative might be to allow amanda.conf to configure certain
> ignore statements.  That would allow me to skip pagefile.sys error
> messages from emailed status.  I get so many error messages, most of
> them from samba, that it is unlikely that I will catch real errors.
> 
> With a configurable statement to ignore certain errors, there is a
> chance that I will find real errors.
> 
> I believe that the current ignore list is compiled into amanda, though
> I don't know where it comes from.
> 

client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c

and yes, it is easily extensible.

-- 
Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
 JG Computing
 4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
 Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)