"John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JRJ> >>Is there any "amanda-way" to have exclude lists on the server and update JRJ> >>them on the client before each backup? ... JRJ> I have not tried this, but if you're running 2.4.3 (server and client) JRJ> and don't have an "excessive" number of exclusions, you can set up a JRJ> dummy dumptype with the information, then inherit it into each real JRJ> dumptype as needed: JRJ> JRJ> define dumptype exclude-stuff { JRJ> exclude file append "pattern1" JRJ> exclude file append "pattern2" JRJ> exclude file append "pattern3" JRJ> exclude file append "pattern4" JRJ> } [SKIP] JRJ> And so on. You can, of course, have more than one fake dumptype with JRJ> different sets of exclude patterns. And, since "append" is used, you JRJ> may reference more than one in a real dumptype -- the entries will be JRJ> merged into a single large list. JRJ> JRJ> As I said, I haven't even faintly tried this. It's just an idea based JRJ> on how I'm pretty sure this all works.
Looks like exactly what I need :) Thanks. I will try it and see if it'll actually work. Looks OK to me, though :) -- Best regards, Leonid Mamtchenkov, RHCE System Administrator Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.