Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:09, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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.

So I need to replace the line 'exclude file "amanda.exclude"' with

exclude list "amanda.exclude"?  OK - I'll try that.  If it works it should get 
me where I wanted to be.

I'd still like to understand, though, why it thought there was not enough 
room.  I would have thought that there was plenty, even for a full backup?

Anne
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