Hi Jon, Thanks for your reply! You may remember that you helped me a great deal to set up our amanda server about 2 years ago!
What confuses me is that it's not really clear to me how amanda appends what you want to exclude to disklist entries. Like, if I have the following disklist entries: backupclientname /usr/local/clients comp-tar backupclientname /home comp-tar backupclientname /data comp-tar and the exclude file contains: ./client1/archive does amanda just simply ignore /home/client1/archive and /data/client1/archive (because they don't exist in the first place)? Thank you very much! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: 05 October 2007 15:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Amanda exclusions On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:26:51PM +0100, Johan Booysen wrote: > I'm using amanda to back up our Linux servers, and want to exclude > some directories from a specific folder on a backup client. > > In my disklist on the backup server, I've got an entry such as: > backupclientname /usr/local/clients comp-tar > > And on the backup client I have a folder such as: > /usr/local/clients/client1 > > In my amanda.conf I specify an exclude file in the dumptype: > define dumptype comp-tar { > program "GNUTAR" > compress fast > index yes > record yes > exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude/exclude-list" > } > > Now I want to exclude the directory /usr/local/clients/client1/archive. > > Will this work, when defined in > /usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude/exclude-list on the backup client?: > ./client1/archive > > I believe that the above will take /usr/local/clients (from the > disklist) and append /client1/archive (from the exclude file), to > result in /usr/local/clients/client1/archive to be excluded, but would > appreciate if anyone can confirm this for me. I've read > http://www.amanda.org/docs/exclude.html, but to be honest that has > slightly confused me... > Doesn't seem to me that you are confused at all. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
