Hi,
I am using Amanda to backup several Windows 2000 servers using
smbclient. I need to exclude multiple files and directories on the
Windows servers from the backups.
If I put in the dumptype for the Windows servers:
exclude "./Directory1"
Directory1 on the root of the Windows file system is
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 at 4:53pm, Donhost Support wrote
> > In terms of getting amanda to do this, well, you've got the
> > source. ;)
>
> I guess so, just thought there might be a way round this.
As I said, I think the difficulty is differntiating between GNUTAR/tar and
GNUTAR/smbclient. You
> > > > I don't know what the docs say, or what the case was in previous
> > > > versions, but using amanda-2.4.2p2 one can exclude as
> many files as
> > > > required by listing them on the command line one by
> one, each one
> > >
> > > I thought that this was exactly what *wasn't* working fo
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 at 4:32pm, Donhost Support wrote
> > > I don't know what the docs say, or what the case was in previous
> > > versions, but using amanda-2.4.2p2 one can exclude as many files as
> > > required by listing them on the command line one by one, each one
> >
> > I thought that this
> > > From what I understand, smbclient _only_ supports
> excluding a single
> > > directory/file from the command line. So, you could have an
> > > exclude in the
> > > dumtypes, but it's limited to one item. Could someone correct
> > > me here if I'm
> > > wrong?
> >
> > I don't know wha
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 at 4:05pm, Donhost Support wrote
> > From what I understand, smbclient _only_ supports excluding a single
> > directory/file from the command line. So, you could have an
> > exclude in the
> > dumtypes, but it's limited to one item. Could someone correct
> > me here if I'm
> From what I understand, smbclient _only_ supports excluding a single
> directory/file from the command line. So, you could have an
> exclude in the
> dumtypes, but it's limited to one item. Could someone correct
> me here if I'm
> wrong?
I don't know what the docs say, or what the case wa
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 09:45, Donhost Support wrote:
> > Amanda with smbclient can't use excludes like Linux does.
> > This is being
> > addressed in the next several releases of Amanda. If you read
> > the amanda.conf
> > in your amanda directory, you'll notice that it points out
> > that "
> Amanda with smbclient can't use excludes like Linux does.
> This is being
> addressed in the next several releases of Amanda. If you read
> the amanda.conf
> in your amanda directory, you'll notice that it points out
> that "exclude
> options are silently ignored by dump and samba."
I did
Hi,
I am using Amanda to backup several Windows 2000 servers using
smbclient. I need to exclude multiple files and directories on the
Windows servers from the backups.
If I put in the dumptype for the Windows servers:
exclude "./Directory1"
Directory1 on the root of the Windows file system is
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