"Woodcock, Steve" wrote:
>
> My disk is split thusly:
>
> /dev/sda6 on / type ext2 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6 16G 2.9G 13G 18% /
> /dev/sda1 23M 17M 4.4M 80% /boot
>
> What's the best disklist setup for this? - should I have a single entry for
> /, or multiple entries for /, /home, /var for example?
>
> I assume if I go for multiple entries on the same partition I'd need to
> setup exclude entries for each - ie. for / I'd need to exclude /home, /var.
You can't setup a separate exclude list for each entry in disklist file.
In this particular case you just need to put ./home and ./var into
exclude file and make 3 separate entries for /, /home and /var in the
disklist. I assume you don't have ./home and ./var under /home and /var
(i.e /home/var or /var/home directories).
>
> Would it make restores quicker if I had multiple entries?
Yes, that's for sure, because you don't have to pipe the whole "/"
archive in order to extract
/home or /var.
>
> Also, are restores quicker if I use hw compression instead of sw
> compression? (I'm thinking it wouldn't have to decompress the whole tar file
> to find what to restore...)
hw compression is not recommended for most cases.
>
> Other stuff: I'm using DDS-3 tapes, only backing up one machine (itself),
> RH6.2, amanda-2.4.2p1.
That's fine as long as your single backup set (disklist entry) fit the
tape.
DDS-3 should work for your current configuration.
>
> That was a few more questions than I intended. Well, I'd appreciate any help
> - I've done lots of reading but I don't really have the big picture yet...
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve Woodcock
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