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Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:06 PM
To: Stephen Carville
Cc: Amanda Users
Subject: Re: Excludes not working
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:10am, Stephen Carville wrote
> I have an exclude list that looks like:
>
> /proc
> /devices
> /tmp
> /temp
> /var/lock
&
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:10am, Stephen Carville wrote
> I have an exclude list that looks like:
>
> /proc
> /devices
> /tmp
> /temp
> /var/lock
> /var/spool/postfix/private
> /spool/postfix/private
> /var/tmp
> /lost+found
> *..LCK
>
> But amrecover tells me that amanda is still backing up thes
Putting a dot (.) in front of the directory names did the trick.
Thanks to everyone who answered.
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Stephen Carville wrote:
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Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:10am, Stephen Carville wrote
>
> > I have an exclude list that looks like:
> >
> > /proc
> > /devices
> > /tmp
> > /temp
> > /var/lock
> > /var/spool/postfix/private
> > /spool/postfix/private
> > /var/tmp
> > /lost+found
> > *..LCK
> >
>
I think you must add a dot before each exclude list entry and you must
use shell wildcards:
./proc/*
./devices/*
Those are relative to the partition roots, not necessarily to the
filesystem root.
Moritz
Du schriebst am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2001:
> I have an exclude list that looks like:
>
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:10am, Stephen Carville wrote
> I have an exclude list that looks like:
>
> /proc
> /devices
> /tmp
> /temp
> /var/lock
> /var/spool/postfix/private
> /spool/postfix/private
> /var/tmp
> /lost+found
> *..LCK
>
> But amrecover tells me that amanda is still backing up thes
