Jeff,

You can use testgtar script contributed by Amanda user to test regex patterns.
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page#Useful_Amanda_tools

Thanks,
Paddy

On 8/24/06, Jeff Portwine <jdport AT michigandrill DOT com> 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.

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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)*"
}


Amcheck didn't have any problems with it but when the backup actually ran, I
got the following messages in the dump report:

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  frank.veritime.com  /dev/sdc1  lev 0  STRANGE

FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/--  myserver /dev/sdc1 lev 0 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [myserver:/dev/sdc1 level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/gtar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gtar -f... -
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: ./home/(user1|user2|user3|user4)*: Warning: Cannot
stat: No such file or directory
| Total bytes written: 10240 (10kB, ?B/s)
sendbackup: size 10
sendbackup: end
\--------



Did I do the regex incorrectly, or is there a better way to accomplish this?


Thanks,
Jeff

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