On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:41:24PM -0400, Ray Shaw wrote:
>
> I'm using amanda 2.4.1p1 (the version included in Debian potato).
>
> Currently, the /home partition on our main user system is too large to
> back up fully (we have only a small tape drive). Rather than
> completely leave users out in the cold, I'd like to back up at least
> their mail, and probably web directories.
>
> So:
>
> /home/*/[M,m]ail
> /home/*/public_html
>
> I've been trying to do this with exclude lists, but I haven't hit the
> solution yet. This:
>
> [^*/public_html]
>
> at least, does not work.
>
> On that note, it is annoying that if I have an exclude
> file, say /etc/amanda/exclude.home, running amanda with that file
> produces different results than:
>
> tar cvf /dev/null /home -X /etc/amanda/exclude.home
I don't think amanda tar's /home, I think it cd's to /home and
tar's "." (current dir). Thus your exclude file should be
relative to ".", not "/home".
jl
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