2005/5/15, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It sounds as if you believe an exclude pattern of "./foo" will > exclude any file and/or directory containing the string 'foo'. > Not so, "./foo" will only match, and only exclude one item. > It may be a file called 'foo' under the mount point or it > may be a directory in the same location. If 'foo' is a file, > that is all that is excluded. If 'foo' is a directory, then > the directory and everything under it is excluded. No other > directories or files are affected. >
Ah ! The doc says: --------------------- Exclude any file or directory that ends in ".log" e.g. ppp.log, XFree86.0.log ./*.log Exclude any file or directory with the string "log" e.g. logfile, maillog, syslog, ppp.log, XFree86.0.log */*log* Exclude any file or directory that starts with string "cron" and ends in ".gz" e.g. cron.1.gz, cron.2.gz, log/cron.1.gz ./*cron*.gz -------------- You mean those examples will NOT work in a directory other than "." (The DLE i'm backing up) ? There is noy way to tell amanda to skip all files ending in ".mp3" for example, whatever the directory they may reside in ? Thanks
