On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:26:51PM +0100, Johan Booysen wrote:
> 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...
>  

Doesn't seem to me that you are confused at all.

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