I'm just starting out, but I understood that excludes didn't work with
samba shares when using GNUTAR. I've been working around that limitation,
when possible, by sharing only the directories that need to be backed up.
This has obvious flaws, of course. For example, most of the NT systems
don't have the hard drives organized to make this simple, so the whole
mess gets backed up, including:
* NT swap file
* Operating system files
* web browser caches
* application files
All of these things are just a waste of time and space to back up. I'm
certainly open to suggestions... if the excludes actually work on samba
shares, let me know!
--- Eric
On 5 Dec 2000, Roland E. Lipovits wrote:
>
> I'm using samba-backups with an exclude-statement (specified in
> the disklist-file). As far as I read from the files in /tmp/amanda
> the exlusion is only used when backuping, not when estimating.
> Bug or feature? (BTW: amanda-2.4.2)
>
> Regards,
> Lipo
>
> --
> Roland E. Lipovits
> Vienna, Austria
>
