dump-type exclude list - do I understand this?

[Drew Sanford]

I'm needing to know if I understand the exclude list properly. If I 
define .amanda-excludes as the file to look for on the client machine, 
and I'm doing a backup of var (hence the file is actually 
/var/.amanda-excludes) and I don't want to back up /var/log or /var/run, 
what exactly should my .amanda-excludes file contain?