ahhh it works on files not directories. Sorry to send an unnecessary mail. Andrew ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:18:30 +0000 (GMT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exclude list format Hello, I have a 25 gig partition that I need to backup. My tape drive is only a 4/8 gig drive. My thought was to create an exclude list and run the backup in two steps on two tapes. I am only using 12 of the 25 gigs. My dumptype has the line: otions exclude-list "/etc/amanda/Backup-Test/exclude.sda5" that file exists on the client and is owned by user and group backup. The contents are: /var/FTP /var/HOMES The problem is that even though I am telling it to exclude these files AND use tar it still creates the tarball with those directories which causes the dump to fail. What is the syntax of the exclude file. Does anyone know of a GOOD place for amanda docs. All I can find says use fearture A but gives no way of how to use feature A. For example the man page talks about the exclude file but does not cover the format of the exclude file. Why does amcheck not find these errors? Thanks again for your time. Andrew Hall
