On Monday 07 October 2002 15:22, Thom Paine wrote:
>On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 15:15, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> That depends.  What are your disklist entries?  Are you using
>> dump or tar? What is the output of df?
>
>localhost / comp-root-tar
>localhost /boot comp-root-tar

Give it the FQDN please, useage of 'localhost' will eventually bite 
you.

>[root@mail DailySet1]# df -h
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda3             133G  6.3G  119G   5% /
>/dev/sda1              99M   14M   80M  15% /boot
>none                  504M     0  503M   0% /dev/shm
>
>> If you don't want it backed up, just delete it from the
>> disklist.  Or, if you're backing up / and want to exclude /tmp
>> (which is in the same partition), use an exclude statement (in
>> the dumptype) or exclude list.
>
>How do I format the exclude statement?

The exclude can be a single definition within the dumptype section 
of your amanda.conf, or you can point it to a file with many names 
in it.  The one universal specification is that the name so given 
must be a 'relative' name, eg /tmp will not work, but ./tmp will.

>Thanks,

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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