Hi, I am using a .amanda-exclude.list per DLE on the top of it and is not broken for me. I can share my settings if it help.
Kind regards Jose M Calhariz On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 05:13:19PM +0000, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > On the other hand: I also used .amanda-exclude-list > at the top of any DLE that needed an exclude list. > > However, they broke a few years ago. I don’t know if that was my > version of Linux or my version of amanda. > > So trying a globalized version is a good idea. > > Deb Baddorf > Fermilab > > > On Jul 9, 2021, at 8:28 AM, Kees Meijs | Nefos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Charles, > > > > Thank you for your prompt answer. > > > > On 09-07-2021 15:10, Charles Curley wrote: > >> I wonder why you put the excludes file in with the stuff being backed > >> up? I usually put my excludes files in with my amanda files, and refer > >> to them with a fully qualified path: > >> > >> define dumptype comp-root-tar-var { > >> comp-root-tar > >> comment "Root partitions with compression, special for /var" > >> exclude list "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/excludes.var" > >> } > > > > Well that's easy: I was under the impression one must have a excludes file > > per DLE. I was wrong. > > > >> I'm no expert on UEFI, but it strikes me as asking for problems to put > >> anything other than UEFI files in /boot/efi. I vaguely recall that that > >> is a FAT file system, in which case the file name may be a problem. > >> > >> > >> Also, it's rather hard to diagnose what is likely a permissions issue > >> without knowing what the relevant permissions are. > >> > >> root@hawk:/etc/amanda/DailySet1# ll excludes.var > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 138 Mar 26 2018 excludes.var > >> root@hawk:/etc/amanda/DailySet1# > > > > Yes that's FAT32 and yes the filename is invalid and therefore a problem. > >> -- Does anybody read signatures any more? > > > > Yes, I just did. :-) > > > > Thanks! Will try with a general exclude file in a different location. > > > > Cheers, > > Kees > > > -- -- Ah se eu fosse homem... Clodovil.
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