Hi, Lars Kellogg-Stedman, on Freitag, 21. Mai 2004 at 14:19 you wrote to amanda-users:
LKS> Howdy all, LKS> I'm using Amanda with a Dell PV120T tape library, which has a DTL 4000 LKS> drive capable of writing 20GB uncompressed data to each tape. I have a LKS> directory that's currently tipping the scales at 30GB, and is only going LKS> to get larger. Normally, I would look into splitting this backup apart LKS> by subdirectory, but that's not going to work here: LKS> * There are currently 409 subdirectories beneath the parent. LKS> * The structure of these subdirectories is mandated by the application, LKS> so I can't create some sort of top-level "grouping" directories. LKS> * Directories will be created, deleted, or renamed. LKS> A ridiculously simple solution to this whole problem would be using LKS> wildcards in the disklist file, e.g.,: LKS> localhost /export/data/[a-mA-M]* dumptype LKS> localhost /export/data/[n-zN-Z]* dumptype LKS> But of course this doesn't work :(. FIRST: DON'T USE localhost !!! :-| Second: Read the example disklist in the docs-dir of your AMANDA-tarball. The syntax is like: hosta /diskA/ag /diskA { # all directories that start with [a-g] except big1 and big2 high-tar include "./[a-g]*" exclude "./big1" "./big2" } 1 and such. This should do the trick for you. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]