The --exclude-from=file option for gnu tar, which is also 
available as a dumptype option 'exclude list file' lets
you specify a filename which contains such exclusion
patterns

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, peanut butter wrote:

> Hi, believing that what I want to do is not possible but wanting
> to hear it from others: can one make pattern exclusions using
> gnutar with Amanda?  For instance, I want to exclude all 2nd level
> subdirectories named raw, ie. "./*/raw".  For some reason I
> thought this was an option with gnutar which gave me some hope
> that the same would be possible with Amanda but I certainly can't
> find any mention of this in gnutar's man page now.
> 
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