I'm using amanda to
back up our Linux servers, and want to exclude some directories from a specific
folder on a backup client.
In my disklist on
the backup server, I've got an entry such as:
backupclientname /usr/local/clients
comp-tar
And on the backup
client I have a folder such as:
/usr/local/clients/client1
In my amanda.conf I
specify an exclude file in the dumptype:
define dumptype
comp-tar {
program
"GNUTAR"
compress
fast
index
yes
record
yes
exclude list
"/usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude/exclude-list"
}
Now I want to
exclude the directory /usr/local/clients/client1/archive.
Will this work, when
defined in /usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude/exclude-list on the backup
client?:
./client1/archive
I believe that
the above will take /usr/local/clients (from the disklist) and append /client1/archive (from the exclude file), to result in
/usr/local/clients/client1/archive to be
excluded, but would appreciate if anyone can confirm this for me. I've read http://www.amanda.org/docs/exclude.html,
but to be honest that has slightly confused
me...
Thanks very
much.
