On Wednesday 09 January 2002 09:45, Donhost Support wrote: > > Amanda with smbclient can't use excludes like Linux does. > > This is being > > addressed in the next several releases of Amanda. If you read > > the amanda.conf > > in your amanda directory, you'll notice that it points out > > that "exclude > > options are silently ignored by dump and samba." > > I did read that and did note it, however docs/SAMBA says otherwise. It > certainly does not silently ignore it because the backups fail with an > exclude statement in amanda.conf. > > When I put just one file in the exclude statement in amanda.conf it > works fine, the file is passed to smbclient and it is excluded from the > backup. smbclient in itself supports excluding multiple files because I > have invoked smbclient manually and excluded multiple files. > > I am missing something here?
>From what I understand, smbclient _only_ supports excluding a single directory/file from the command line. So, you could have an exclude in the dumtypes, but it's limited to one item. Could someone correct me here if I'm wrong?
