Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

Hi Charles,

Thank you for your prompt answer.

On 09-07-2021 15:10, Charles Curley wrote:
> I wonder why you put the excludes file in with the stuff being backed
> up? I usually put my excludes files in with my amanda files, and refer
> to them with a fully qualified path:
>
> define dumptype comp-root-tar-var {
>      comp-root-tar
>      comment "Root partitions with compression, special for /var"
>      exclude list "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/excludes.var"
> }

Well that's easy: I was under the impression one must have a excludes 
file per DLE. I was wrong.

> I'm no expert on UEFI, but it strikes me as asking for problems to put
> anything other than UEFI files in /boot/efi. I vaguely recall that that
> is a FAT file system, in which case the file name may be a problem.
>
>
> Also, it's rather hard to diagnose what is likely a permissions issue
> without knowing what the relevant permissions are.
>
> root@hawk:/etc/amanda/DailySet1# ll excludes.var
> -rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 138 Mar 26  2018 excludes.var
> root@hawk:/etc/amanda/DailySet1#

Yes that's FAT32 and yes the filename is invalid and therefore a problem.
> -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Yes, I just did. :-)

Thanks! Will try with a general exclude file in a different location.

Cheers,
Kees