Frank Smith wrote:
Try using regular expressions to split your subdirectories.
Many people on this list wildcard the end of the name, such
as /data/1*, but for your application I would suggest wildcarding
the first digits instead of the last instead, such as /data/*1,
since the first digit(s) of your customer numbers are probably
less evenly distributed than the last. If splitting it into
10 chunks isn't enough, you could try something like /data/*1[0-4]
and /data/*1[5-9] etc. and split it into 20 DLEs.
Thanks everyone that responded. I have decided to take Frank's approach
and split it up w/ the glob-patterns... it results in some chunks that
are too small (and others that are bigger than i like), but overall it's
a fairly good solution. In the future I intend to isolate this set of
backups from my normal backup policy and go w/ Paul's advice to use the
new tape-spanning features in amanda. That should be keen.
Thanks everyone!
Cameron Matheson
