On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:31:55AM -0400, Jeremy L. Mordkoff wrote: > I am backing up one windows machine via samba.I would like to backup the entire > machine except the /windows /temp and /program files trees. Is there a way to do > this? I don't want to specify a bunch to dirs to get backed up because as soon as I > do, someone will create a new directory off the root and put something important > there :) > > I am considering having it run a windows backup to a file server and simply backing > that up.
Fuzzy recollections, not certainties. You probably could do it if your server allows smbmounts. Then you would have a "local" directory tree to backup with gnutar and could use the exclude feature. If instead you are using the "normal" samba backups with amanda, then there has been a problem in translating gnutar's exclude semantics to those used by smbclient/smbtar. This problem resulted in only being able to exclude a single directory or file from the client. I don't know if that situation still exists today. If it does, you might want to do a search in the mailing list archives. Someone, I forget who, posted a workaround that allowed multiple exclusions. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
