On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:32:25 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> If I have in my excludes file:
>
> ./gene/.gvfs
>
> Then there is no complaint about the lack of access perms in the emailed
> report.
>
> However, from what I understand about the anchoring process, that line
> should also cause /home/gene to be bypassed, and that effectively shuts
> down the reason to do the backup in the first place.
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 21:14:48 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> Nope, the dle is shop /home
>
As I understand it, the entire entry in the exclude file has to match
against the path name that tar is processing, so I don't see how
excluding "./gene/.gvfs" would cause anything else under ./gene/ to be
excluded from your backup.
(Note that the line can match against part of the path name, so that
excluding "*.o" will cause the files like "./gene/myprog.o" to be
excluded from the backup -- but in your case the question is whether the
exclude line "./gene/.gvfs" is a substring of any other paths being
processed during the dump....)
But perhaps the easy thing to do is let Amanda run with that entry in
place and then check the index file generated for that run on that DLE
and confirm that the other files under your home directory are indeed
listed as expected.
(Given that the "base" directory of the DLE is "/home", then
"./gene/.gvfs" in the exclude list does seem correct for excluding the
absolute-path "/home/gene/.gvfs" directory from your backup.)
Nathan
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