Hallo Stefan,

> The AMANDA-client runs GNU-tar (you have to set that) over your DLE
> (this process is executed on the client, so no network transfer), with
> the exclude/include-list as an option, so only the files that are
> matching the resulting patterns are sent over the wires ...

oh, ok, gnutar runs on the clients. Then it's a reasonable solution.

Thanks for being patient. :)

Cheers,

Jens