On Sunday 02 April 2006 06:50, Josef Wolf wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:31:59PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> > As promised, I updated the wiki docs on this topic, see
>> > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Backing_up_large_amounts_of_data.
>
>Am I the only one to find this setup needlessly error prone and
> complicated? Would amanda automatically create appropriate exclude
> entries from its DLE information, all this would be greatly
> simplified.
>
>For example, with this set of DLE entries:
>
>  /share/
>  /share/financial
>  /share/financial/company-a
>  /share/financial/company-b
>  /share/reports
>
>amanda should automatically create following exclude entries:
>
>  DLE                 exclude entry
>  --------------------------------------------
>  /share              ./financial ./reports
Which will exclude the subdir financial and the file reports
>  /share/financial    ./company-a ./company-b
Which will exclude both of the ./company files.
You've excluded everything.  What was it you wanted to get with that 
disklist entry pair?
>
>With this, the whole described procedure would be reduced just to add
> a directory to the disklist.  No more risk to get the "catch all"
> entry wrong.

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