BTW, what Jean-Louis suggested worked perfectly. Thanks! :-) Regards,
Alan On 05/26/2015 04:58 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > 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 >> >
