On 19 Feb 2002 at 7:27am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> > You're exactly right -- that's the swap file, and you can't open it. You
> > could exclude it in your dumptype, or just ignore the error.
>
> I would like to exclude it, but the sample amanda.conf file (from which
> I derived the one I am using) says I can't, under the comments for
> dumptypes:
>
> # dumptypes
> ...
> # exclude - specify files and directories to be excluded from the
> # dump. Useful with gnutar only; silently ignored by dump and samba.
>
> Is this information outdated. That is, does it actually work with
> samba? I tried:
Yep -- that info is wrong and should probably be changed. docs/SAMBA has
the proper info:
Smbclient only supports excluding a single file from the command line,
not a file of patterns like GNU tar. So "exclude" is supported from a
dumptype but not "exclude list".
> define dumptype americom-samba {
> americom-standard
> program "GNUTAR"
> exclude "/WINDOWS/WIN386.SWP"
> }
>
> but it did not work. Do I use backslashes, or is there anything else I
> need to do?
Well, here's what I do to exclude the recycyle bin:
define dumptype comp-high-smb {
global
comment "important partitions via tar (e.g. for samba)"
compress client best
priority medium
exclude "./RECYCLER"
}
Give the ./ a try.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
