On Sunday 02 April 2006 06:50, Josef Wolf wrote: >On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:31:59PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> > As promised, I updated the wiki docs on this topic, see >> > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Backing_up_large_amounts_of_data. > >Am I the only one to find this setup needlessly error prone and > complicated? Would amanda automatically create appropriate exclude > entries from its DLE information, all this would be greatly > simplified. > >For example, with this set of DLE entries: > > /share/ > /share/financial > /share/financial/company-a > /share/financial/company-b > /share/reports > >amanda should automatically create following exclude entries: > > DLE exclude entry > -------------------------------------------- > /share ./financial ./reports Which will exclude the subdir financial and the file reports > /share/financial ./company-a ./company-b Which will exclude both of the ./company files. You've excluded everything. What was it you wanted to get with that disklist entry pair? > >With this, the whole described procedure would be reduced just to add > a directory to the disklist. No more risk to get the "catch all" > entry wrong.
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