Hi,
Two things:
First your syntax is bad, in a dumptype with "exclude " you can only define one
file to exclude. if you use it multiple times, only the last exclude-line is used.
For more the one file to exclude use the "exclude list" option. It takes a file
listing the files to exclude.
But with samba you are lost as far as i remember.
With amanda and samba you can only exclude one single file with the exclude command,
as the exclude list command does not work with samba due to limitation of the
dumper api or the smb-tar, i don't rem,ember exactly which of both.
Christoph
Casey Scott schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been through all the documentation I can find, and still don't know if
> it's possible to exclude a directory from a windows (smb) backup. I have the
> following as my dumptype, and PAGEFILE.SYS is ignored but nothing else:
>
> define dumptype comp-smb {
> root-tar
> comment "Root partitions with compression"
> compress client fast
> exclude "./TuxDownloads"
> exclude "./Documents and Settings\Casey Scott"
> exclude "./WINNT\system32\config"
> exclude "./PAGEFILE.SYS"
> dumpcycle 0
> }
>
> Do I have to name every file that I want to be ignored, or is there just a
> syntax mistake with the directory declarations?
>
> Thanks,
> Casey Scott
>
