On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:26:31PM +0200, listrcv enlightened us: > Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > >>As promised, I updated the wiki docs on this topic, see > >>http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Backing_up_large_amounts_of_data. > > > > > >Thanks for contributing, I just added some minor corrections. > > Thanks, that looks better now :) One thing I think that is missing is an > explanation of the difference between: > > include > include append > > exclude > exclude append > > I would guess that 'append' tells amanda something like 'you should > append this to the previous dumps of that mountpoint rather than > considering it seperate', but I don't know. Also, the self-consistency > is dubious since amanda seems to consider /home/wanda as a part of /home > --- or maybe not. It would be nice if someone could shed a light on the > logic behind that. >
It merely means "append this to the previous {in,ex}clude I just gave you". Makes for easier reading. If you did: include ./foo include ./bar your include list would be "./bar" (second include overrides the first) If you did: include ./foo include append ./bar your include list would be "./foo ./bar" (second include is appended to the first) Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263