Exclude Lists - Amanda 2.5.0

2006-11-16 Thread Gordon J. Mills III
Could somebody please point me to a good explanation of the exclude lists? I am trying to create an exclude list for some windows machines that I back up. Will excludes work on the windows machines (using smbclient backup in Amanda 2.5.0)? If they will work, I would like a good explanation of the

Re: Exclude Lists - Amanda 2.5.0

2006-11-16 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, Please take look at this link for information about exclude lists: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Exclude_and_include_lists Thanks Pavel Pragin Could somebody please point me to a good explanation of the exclude lists? I am trying to create an exclude list for some windows machines

Re: Exclude Lists - Amanda 2.5.0

2006-11-15 Thread Steve Newcomb
If your situation permits, you could use an administrator-friendly, rational operating system, such as Linux or Mach, that permits you to backup a working system comprehensively, and, after a disk crash, fire, or other mishap, to quickly restore a *working* system from a *comprehensive* backup

Exclude Lists - Amanda 2.5.0

2006-11-14 Thread Gordon J. Mills III
I have a question about Exclude lists. I am finally sick of seeing all of the missed open files for my windows boxes, so I want to put the common ones in an exclude list. First, is there any difference in specifying a directory or a file? Second, how do I specify a path that has spaces in it (in