On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:33:16PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:01, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > 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).
> >
> borg  /home {
>       program "GNUTAR"
>       compress CLIENT BEST
>       index yes
>       exclude file "amanda.exclude"
>       } 1
> 
> Is that what you wanted?
> 

And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list".

I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern
"amanda.exclude".

What you want is to exclude any file matching any pattern
in the "list of patterns" in amanda.exclude.



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