Paul Bijnens wrote: > Josef Wolf schreef: >> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:31:59PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >>>> As promised, I updated the wiki docs on this topic, see >>>> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Backing_up_large_amounts_of_data. >> Am I the only one to find this setup needlessly error prone and complicated? >> Would amanda automatically create appropriate exclude entries from its DLE >> information, all this would be greatly simplified. >> >> For example, with this set of DLE entries: >> >> /share/ >> /share/financial >> /share/financial/company-a >> /share/financial/company-b >> /share/reports >> >> amanda should automatically create following exclude entries: >> >> DLE exclude entry >> -------------------------------------------- >> /share ./financial ./reports >> /share/financial ./company-a ./company-b >> >> With this, the whole described procedure would be reduced just to add a >> directory to the disklist. No more risk to get the "catch all" entry wrong. >> > > Interesting idea. > > That would mean that the estimate phase should be smart enough (may > be add an option "autosplit" for those DLE's where you want that) to > pick a few large subdirectories out and then split the DLE dynamically. > We could change "calcsize" for this. > Autosplit seems confusing. If your disklist is dynamic, how would you do a restore? What would you use as an argument to setdisk, as the DLE containing a particular file would vary from day to day. Also, how would planner interact with a dynamic disklist?
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