On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:07:50PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > one subdir contains more than 100GB [i.e. tape size] but > also has something close to 2000 subdirs.
You could write a script to generate the excludes dynamically. Or maybe you could rearrange the directories a bit: split them up into tape-sized subsets, and use symlinks to provide the appearance that they're all still in one directory. That is, if you currently have: /mountpoint/subdir/aardvark ... /mountpoint/subdir/zebra turn it into something like: /mountpoint/subdir-storage/a-m/aardvark ... /mountpoint/subdir-storage/n-z/zebra and: /mountpoint/subdir/aardvark -> ../subdir-storage/a-m/aardvark ... /mountpoint/subdir/zebra -> ../subdir-storage/n-z/zebra -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was all of humanity, except me. - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot