> On Monday 14 October 2002 04:56, Toralf Lund wrote:
> [...]
> >Yes, that's what I'm doing. The problem with this is that
> > something easily gets left out as new directories are created.
> >
> >How about
> >
> >1. Allowing wildcards in the disklist file
> >2. Having some kind of "auto expansion" mode, where a directory in
> > the disklist file would be traversed recursively and replaced
> > with its "leaf" or "level n" sub directories.
> 
> I believe that one can use regex expressions to break it up
> alphabeticly, like one entry to cover [a*-c*], the next for [d*-g*]
> etc, but I've no idea of the exact syntax required as I've never
> done that.
That would certainly be useful in some cases, although I was thinking more 
along the lines of listing

some-host /some-dir/* full-tar

in disklist file, and having Amanda treat this as if one entry for each 
sub directory of /some-dir was included.

>  And of course, that implys using tar, settle for no
> less than 1.13-25 in the version number.
Of course.

> 
> Jon, etc, please feel free to jump in and correct me here, I'm
> sinking.
Please do!

- Toralf

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