Amanda Setup – Open source backup software for linux

Amanda provides a way to back up a variety of enterprise data sources and applications, supporting multiple flavors of Unix and Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

Installation

For installation follow the given URL
http://www.zmanda.com/quick-backup-setup.html

Exclude files/folder in backup

You can exclude files and folder in backup. To exclude folders, you will have to edit the dumptype entry in amanda.conf file.

Refer the given dumptype I used in my backup.

define dumptype user-tar-span {
root-tar
tape_splitsize 3 Gb
comment "tape-spanning user partitions dumped with tar"
priority medium
exclude append "./Directory/exclude_folder_1/*"
exclude append "./Directory/exclude_folder_2/*"
exclude append "./Directory/exclude_folder_3/*"
exclude append "./Directory/exclude_folder_4/*"
}

Here in the above example you can exlude ./Directory/exclude_folder_1,2,3 and 4.