Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

Debra S Baddorf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
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> On Jul 10, 2021, at 2:31 AM, Kees Meijs | Nefos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thank you for all your answers and support.
> 
> On 09-07-2021 20:27, Jose M Calhariz wrote:
>> I am using a .amanda-exclude.list per DLE on the top of it and is not
>> broken for me.  I can share my settings if it help.
>> 
> 
> The root cause of the errors generated in my case is the FAT32 filesystem not supporting leading dots in filenames.
> 
> Using a global exclude list seems to work out fine, so thanks for pointing that out.
> 
> Enjoy the weekend!
> 
> Cheers,
> Kees


Yeah - I realized later that you might have meant “leading dot”.
I was actually using   ./amanda-exclude-file
to indicate that it was at the top of the DLE.   But no dot  IN the name.

Sorry I helped to add confusion.

Deb Baddorf
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