On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success.  Each 
> day I'm seeing a report like this:
> 
...
> 
> I am trying to back up /home, using an exclusion file.  First question, then 
> - 
> should the exclusion file be in /home or /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily?  I've 
> tried both, but it seems to make no difference.
> 
> Contents of amanda.exclude:
> 
> ./anne/recordings
> ./anne/Photos
> 

Show your amanda.conf, or dumptype exclude line(s).

> 
> I am assuming that the exclude file is not being seen, but even so, I don't 
> know why there is a space problem.
> 

In the debug directory, perhaps /tmp/amanda or /var/log/amanda, all the
excludes that are going to be used are collected and put into files like
sendbackupXXXXX.exclude.  Find the one for your DLE and see what it
collected (or didn't) from your exclude file.

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