> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:58:29PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:02:49PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > > > > - You can exclude only one pattern. > > > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:42:13PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > > Um, hello -- can you clue me in on this? I am trying (lazily) to figure > > > > out why my excludes are ignored during backups, but work just fine when > > > > I > > > > run the same tar command by hand. I need to add some debugging code, > > > > and > > > > just haven't found the time. Have you clued into something I've missed? > > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:17:31PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > could you give us your example exclude (note it is singlular) pattern > > > that fails with amanda dumps but works with smbclient. Also the path > > > to file(s) on the window machine that is excluded properly by smbclient > > > but gets included by amanda. > > > > No such animal. I never said smbclient, I said tar. The system is running > > the amanda client. On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:06:27PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Your subject says "Window machines". > > I assumed you were backing up samba shares. > That uses smbclient with its "tar" option. > > If you had meant the much less commonly used cygwin port of amanda, > which does use gnutar, I thought you would have mentioned it. > > Or maybe there is another possibility I haven't considered. > Give me a hand here. I'm sorry, I thought I was on the amanda mailing list, writing about the amanda client. No, I'm not talking about using a program to back up remote shares - I am writing about the actual amanda client.
I'm a bit surprised by your negative response, and your assumption of an indirect method of backup over the native client. And whatever -- this issue has been ignored by you guys for years now, why am I bothering? -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net
