On Tuesday 15 October 2002 05:03, Toralf Lund wrote: >> 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
The star isn't required. I just name the subdir, as in '/usr/dlds' A couple examples from my disklist: coyote.coyote.den /usr/dlds root-tar 0 coyote.coyote.den /usr/etc root-tar 0 This idea could be extended to the third (or even deeper) directory level if thats required to keep it inside a tapes size restraint. The only caveat is that if done for one dir on a partition, it must be done for all that you want to backup. Leaving out a subdir in that situation is the ultimate exclude method. Doing a 'du .' while inside each will give you an idea of the raw data's size there, but not of course how well it would compress. [...] >> Jon, etc, please feel free to jump in and correct me here, I'm >> sinking. > >Please do! > >- Toralf -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.18% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
