On 05/26/2015 02:20 AM, Alan Murrell wrote:
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"
It should exclude only "E:\\SERVER_DATA\\zzzArchive"
You want:
exclude "E:\\SERVER_DATA\\Accounting"
exclude append "E:\\SERVER_DATA\\Archives"
...
exclude append "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
