On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:47:22AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > "When AMANDA attempts to exclude a file or directory it does so relative to > > the area being archived. For example if /var is in your disklist and you > > want to exclude /var/log/somefile, then your exclude file would contain > > ./log/somefile" > > I understand that rather as a warning not to use /var in the path > > > I really just want to confirm whether or not I could have used the entries > > without ./ and what the difference between the different sets of entries > > would be. > > I think it does not make any difference (except maybe for path > globing?), it will exclude any file ending with the suffix .ora, in > any subdirectory that you are backuping.
No there really is a difference between excluding /foo, ./foo, and foo. As you are backing up ".", /foo will not match anything. ./foo will match any foo in the top level directory "." foo will match any foo in any directory under . > > The exclude list is handed as-is to gnu-tar, so one way to make sure > it does what you want is to try it with gnu-tar manually. and it is fast if you do it to /dev/null, as in gtar cvf /dev/null -exclude 'whatever' . -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
