On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:15:06 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> If I may... I think the solution suggested by Nathan does not lean
> toward the excludes.

Yes, that's correct.  The thread only mentions excludes as a workaround
for situations where program=GNUTAR dumptypes are still being using,
since those dumptypes don't allow message handling to be configured on
the fly.

When one is using the amgtar application (as Gene is), the "direct" way
to adjust to tar's new behavior is to add the
  property "NORMAL" ": directory is on a different filesystem; not dumped"
line to the amgtar configuration block (or perhaps an IGNORE line
instead).  That approach changes Amanda's handling of this specific
warning message, without changing anything else about the operation of
the dump.  (And this is the default configuration in Amanda 3.3.6 and later.)


(Gene, if you still decide to use excludes, you'll need to be sure that
the exclude lines you use allow tar to back up the mount-point directory
themselves -- otherwise if you have to do a bare-metal restore you'll
probably have to manually go back and create those directories before
the Ubuntu startup scripts will be able to work properly....  [This
"directory v.s. contents" topic is touched on in
  http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Exclude_and_include_lists
... but I won't be more specific since you shouldn't be doing it that
way :) .])


                                                Nathan


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