On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:23:47AM +0000, Peter Farrell wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> Env - Fedora Core 4
> Amanda Version: amanda-2.4.5p1
> 
...
> Thanks very much for any input.
> It's fun  - but the learning curve feels similar to Nagios at this
> point. (aka 'fiddly' :-)

Peter I'll try to reply to your questions later as time permits.
They are well organized and it is obvious that you have done
some research on your own.  So please don't take this as one
of those "RTFM newbie" comments but as a pointer to some docs
in case you overlooked them.

On FC4 in /usr/share/docs/amanda are several docs including
one on excluding.

"man amanda" describes a lot of the amanda.conf parameters.
In later versions these are broken out to their own man page.

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