Hello,
Please take look at this link for information about  exclude lists:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Exclude_and_include_lists
Thanks
Pavel Pragin

Could somebody please point me to a good explanation of the exclude lists? I
am trying to create an exclude list for some windows machines that I back
up. Will excludes work on the windows machines (using smbclient backup in
Amanda 2.5.0)?

If they will work, I would like a good explanation of the syntax of the
file, specifically wildcards.

i.e. can I specify /*/somedirectory/file???.chk?
How about file paths with spaces in them. Do I just put them with the spaces
or do I have to use some special syntax for that?

I tried searching the net and the wiki but I did not find the answers. I
found some references to it, but it did not answer the questions above.

Thanks for the help.

Regards,
Gordon