On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: > > And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list". > > > > I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern > > "amanda.exclude". > > > > What you want is to exclude any file matching any pattern > > in the "list of patterns" in amanda.exclude. > > So I need to replace the line 'exclude file "amanda.exclude"' with > > exclude list "amanda.exclude"? OK - I'll try that. If it works it should > get > me where I wanted to be. >
Exactly. I even do exclude list optional ".amanda.exclude" so if I don't need to exclude anything from a DLE, I don't have to create the empty file. > I'd still like to understand, though, why it thought there was not enough > room. I would have thought that there was plenty, even for a full backup? Even though there's space on the disk, how big are your vtapes set to be? I'm guessing less than your directory size. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
