If you are happy using TAR for doing Amanda backups on the Netapp, I'd like to try the same on my backup host. Since my Netapp is at about 90 Gb usage with one of the mounted directories close to 50 Gb, backups using dump/restore fail for the Netapp.
Here's a skeleton for disklist how to break up your large filesystem into smaller pieces using gnutar to do the backup. Since amanda 2.4.3 you can modify the dumptype inline in the disklist; we modify the dumptype by adding some exclude patterns to the dumptype. We work up in the tree, listing large objects, and excluding them from the level above.
# A very big directory your.host /filer/home/john/pictures comp-user-tar 1
# The rest of the files and directories from john
your.host /filer/home/john {
comp-user-tar
exclude append "./pictures"
} 1# Two big directories your.host /filer/home/paul/music comp-user-tar 1 your.host /filer/home/paul/bigproject comp-user-tar 1
# The rest of files an directories from paul
your.host /filer/home/paul {
comp-user-tar
exclude append "./music"
exclude append "./bigproject"
} 1your.host /filer/home/george comp-user-tar 1
your.host /filer/home/ringo comp-user-tar 1
your.host /filer/home {
comp-user-tar
exclude append "./john"
exclude append "./paul"
exclude append "./george"
exclude append "./ringo"
} 1 # all the rest
your.host /filer {
comp-user-tar
exclude append "./home"
} 1(We assume your netapp is mounted under /filer, so we stop here.)
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