OK, so by way of an update.... I can't seem to make this work.  By way
of test, I have tried the following in my DLE for the Windows server:

exclude list "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/excludes-server_data

in which I made the following entries:

./Accounting
./Archives
...
./zzzArchive

I then ran the DailySet1 backup, but it still continued to backup the
entire contents of the directory.  I then read that the ZWC does not
support exclude lists; just "vanilla" excludes.  I changed my DLE entry
for "E:/SERVER_DATA" to look like this:

exclude "E:\\SERVER_DATA\\Accounting"
exclude "E:\\SERVER_DATA\\Archives"
...
exclude "E:\\SERVER_DATA\\zzzArchive"

ad ran my DailySet1 backup.  It shouldn't have backed up anything, but
it still proceeded to backuop the entire "E:\SERVER_DATA" directory.

Is anyone backing up Windows files and successfully using excludes? 
Would it maybe work better if I were backing up via SMB instead of using
the ZWC?

-Alan

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