Re: coding an Application in perl

On 02/24/2016 04:41 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:

> I added the following text to the wiki page:
> The '''-record''' option tell the application to record the backup
> it did with all the information it require to be able to do
> incremental at the same or higher level ....

Thanks!  Now for my next questions... :)

In Operations, the descriptions for include-list, include-file,
exclude-list, and exclude-file (and include-optional and
exclude-optional) all say to refer to the amanda.conf page.

The amanda.conf page says that Amanda does the work of expanding
all the include-* properties, and feeds a combined list to the
application with --files-from (and likewise that Amanda computes
a combined list of exclusions and passes that to the application
with --exclude-from).

But the Operations page doesn't seem to mention --files-from or
--excludes-from at all, and when I look at amraw for an example,
it seems to expect --include-list and --exclude-list ... and not
--files-from or --exclude-from, and also not --include-file or
--exclude-file.

What should I believe?  And how does it really work?

I'm also not sure what happens with {include,exclude}-optional
at all. Does the application need to know anything about that?

Thanks,
-Chap