Tom Brown wrote:

Hi

Using 2.4.5p1 on linux and wondering if its possible to exclude a directory from the backup using dump? I presume not and if not what would be the inpact of not having a holding disk?

Scenerio is that i'm backing up a box and one of the partitions contains data that has to be backed up but also contains the holding disk. I presume that having the holding disk on a partition thats getting backed up is a bad thing.

man amanda.conf, DUMPTYPE defitions:

  holdingdisk  boolean
     Default: yes. Whether a holding disk should be used  for  these
     backups  or  whether  they  should  go directly to tape. If the
     holding disk is a portion of another file system that Amanda is
     backing  up,  that  file system should refer to a dumptype with
     holdingdisk set to no to avoid backing up the holding disk into
     itself.



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