Hi Jon,
Thanks for your reply! You may remember that you helped me a great deal
to set up our amanda server about 2 years ago!
What confuses me is that it's not really clear to me how amanda appends
what you want to exclude to disklist entries.
Like, if I have the following disklist entries:
backupclientname /usr/local/clients comp-tar
backupclientname /home comp-tar
backupclientname /data comp-tar
and the exclude file contains:
./client1/archive
does amanda just simply ignore /home/client1/archive and
/data/client1/archive (because they don't exist in the first place)?
Thank you very much!
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
Sent: 05 October 2007 15:48
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Amanda exclusions
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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Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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