On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > > > Are /var and /usr on different filesystems? If so, then this portion of > the documentation might help you: >
No there are only two file systems / and /archives Yes I did see the note below witin the amanda.conf file Hence I believe exclude list below should work for the / file system. ./var/log ./var/spool/mqueue ./usr/products/listserv/spool > Note that the `full pathname' of a file within its filesystem starts with > `./', because of the way amanda runs gnutar: `tar -C $mountpoint -cf - > --lots-of-options .' (note the final dot!) Thus, if you're backing up > `/usr' with a diskfile entry like ``host /usr gnutar-root', but you don't > want to backup /usr/tmp, your exclude list should contain the pattern > `./tmp', as this is relative to the `/usr' above. Please refer to the > man-page of gnutar for more information. If a relative pathname is > specified as the exclude list, it is searched from within the directory > that is going to be backed up. > > > So IF /var and /usr are different filesystems then your exclude list should > look like this: > > ./log > ./spool/mqueue > ./products/listserv/spool > > +-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --+ | Terry McCoy email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Sr Systems Engineer phone: (574) 631-4274 | | | | Office of Information Technologies | | G012 Information Technology Center | | University of Notre Dame | | Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 | +-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --+
