Gene Heskett wrote:

prometheus      /share_programs /share {
 tar-dfault
 include "./programs"
}       1

prometheus      /share_rest /share {
 tar-dfault
 exclude append "./cpc ./cs ./data ./db-vnr ./edv ./programs"
}       1

Amanda only reads the file once, and the last command it gets overrides earlier ones, hence your includes are then excluded. Or at least that was the effect I observed.

GH