>please help, > >can you exclude files using regular dump or do you >have to use gnutar? >
I have a question about this... What is the relationship of the entry related to exclude files in the dumptype root-tar (and its "descendants") and the configure option --with-gnutar-listdir=path ??? What pitfalls might happen on the client, depending on the configure options that the client was built with...? I wonder if there is no relationship and I was chasing my tail? Is it handy to be able to specify this via a dumptypes? Must it be specified in the client configuration before building the programs? I experienced a lot of mucking about on this issue whereby I was chasing down errors related to exclude files on a particular Solaris client... It was awful and persisted for an hour causing body aches and fever. :) Of course it is possible I was chasing my tail however I thought that the previous build was not working due to amcheck errors spewed by the tape server regarding a ill-defined exclude list... Anyone have a view, from a vista higher than mine, on this topic? thx J --