Hi All- Does anyone know how to do this? I'm using 2.4.4, and have read the docs/SAMBA file and see the note about only being able to use "exclude" (not "exclude list") when backing up a windows client using smbclient.
Is that the final answer? Is there no method whatsoever available for excluding more than one file per client machine? I don't want amanda to try and backup my \WINDOWS\WIN386.SWP file, and I don't want it to try and backup my \WINDOWS\SendTo directory (it's trying to get both right now, and when I tell it not to get one, it tries to get the other---when I tell it not to get both (with two exclude commands), amcheck complains that this is not allowed), and there are a few others that I will never want to backup. Is there any way I can do this with amanda? I see sourceforge has (had?) some work going on with something called amanda-win32, but it looks pretty stale. I see that there is an outstanding project to "Optionally use smbwrapper and GNU tar instead of smbclient to perform SAMBA backups." I also see from way back (year 2000) some discussion on amanda-hackers about a patch for doing "exclude list" with smbclient, but I'm skeptical about trying to patch my 2.4.4 sources with a patch that old---especially without much testimony on its quality. I'd love to hear some feedback on this. Thanks in advance.
