On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:40:15AM -0400, Jeff Portwine wrote:
> Please forgive me if this comes across twice, I sent the same question 
> yesterday but it seems that it never made it to the list.. at least I didn't 
> receive my own message if it did.
> 
> ------------
> 
> 
> I want amanda to back up multiple home directories, but I don't want to back 
> up everything in /home.
> I tried using  syntax like this:
> 
> myserver      /dev/sdc1 {
>     server-user-tar
>     include "./home/(user1|user2|user3|user4)*"
> }
> 

I don't think the string argument to include/exclude
are "regex" (regular expression) patterns.  I believe
they are shell globbing (or file name generation) patterns.
Thus the parentheses and pipe symbol are taken as literal.

Is the mount point of /dev/sdc1 "/" or is it "/home".
If the latter, then your "." in the pattern is already "home".

You might try something like:

   myserver  HOME-grp1 /home     {
      server-user-tar
      include file ./user1*
      include file append ./user2*
      include file append ./user3*
      include file append ./user4*
   }

And though I've not done it, I think the include multiple strings
can be given on the same line:

   myserver  HOME-grp1 /home     {
      server-user-tar
      include file        ./user1* ./user2*
      include file append ./user3* ./user4*
   }
   

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