On Wednesday 30 July 2014 12:44:37 Nathan Stratton Treadway did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:26:11 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Ergo, a string "./lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs" isn't valid because it
> > references 2 more subdirs.  And I have tried just "./rpc_pipefs",
> > which, while it should be valid, did not work. And a simple ./lib
> > make it skip about 50 megs worth of stuff that lives in /var/lib,
> > not to mention the whole /lib tree.  Bad karma that.
> 
> (In the case of this specific directory, I think the problem you are
> having is that the mount point is "/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs" and not
> "/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs".  [Tar's excludes are indeed processed relative
> to the top of the DLE in question, but with that there's no
> restriction on the number of subdirs in your exclude path...] But all
> that is a good example of why excludes are the hard way to solve the
> "different filesystem"-message issue....)
> 
> > Now, you mention NORMAL in the amgtar setup, so I have the man page
> > on another screen right now.  But the man page is not detailed
> > enough to provide any hints on how to actually use it. ANY man page
> > should at the
> 
> I looked at the amgtar man page for both Precise and Trusty (amanda
> 2.6.1 and 3.3.3, respectively), and both include an EXAMPLE section
> showing a full example application declaration block.  It's down near
> the bottom of the document so perhaps you missed it when you were
> reading the section for the NORMAL keyword, but I think it does provide
> the usage hints you are seeking....
> 
> 
>                                                               Nathan

>From a 4.0.0alpha-4761 build, the example heading shows how to turn a 
NORMAL into a STRANGE, but no "NORMAL" example exists in that document.

Thanks Nathan.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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