> 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 The idea would be not having to include an entry for every sub directory. Listing subdirs is inconvenient because:
1. The disklist file gets large and difficult to read. 2. Something is easily left out from the backup as new directories are created. - Toralf
