On Saturday 21 September 2002 13:05, Martin Schwarz wrote: >Hi Christoph, > >On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:32:03PM +0200, Christoph Scheeder wrote: >> your exclude-list syntax is not correct.... > >[...] > >> > [/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar] >> > /disk-c1/martin/mac >> >> this should read >> >> ./mac
Correct. >> >> it is relative to the root stated in your disklist-entry. > >ah, so absolute paths are not possible here? Using an absolute > path for the exclude-list file in the dumptype definition as I > did, would then lead to the exclusion af ANY directory named > "mac" on ANY filesystem that uses this dumptype? Not what I > wanted... No, the absolute path spec will be ignored. However, if you have a "mac" directory you don't want skipped thats in a different filesystem/partition, then one can copy the dumptype specification to a slightly different name right there in your amanda.conf, and point the disklist entry to that one, which uses a different exclude file, or none at all. >The solution seems to use a _relative_ definition of the > exclude-list file as well: > >[amanda.conf] >exclude-list ".amanda-exclude.gtar" I don't know if that will work or not, I haven't tried it here. I know, thats my fault :-) >and >[/disk-c1/martin/.amanda-exclude.gtar] >./mac > >I'll try this and see if it works. > >Many thanks for your help, >Martin -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.15% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly