On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:57:42PM -0400, Jason Castonguay wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Right now I am using amanda for a few different linux servers. My disklists > use the directories where different partitions are mounted. This has been > working pretty well, but I read somewhere that one can get even better > results by breaking things up to as many small directories as one can. This > makes sense to me, as it will allow amanda to schedule different level > backups the best she can even if it makes things perhaps more difficult to > keep track of. > > So I collected on each client the names of the harddrives for it. > > find / -type d -fprintf ~/amandalist "`hostname -f`\t\t%p\tcomp-user-tar\n" > > and I have an idea to exclude all subdirectories in the dumptype, but then I > run into the problem of users creating and removing their own subdirectories > and then dealing with those. Do people who advocate this sort of setup > generate their disklist each time they run amanda? or do they not have to > deal with this problem? What is the best use of gtar? >
I do it with a set of disk list entries all with the same starting directory but different uniq "tag" names. In most I use the include directive (or include append) to list the subdirectory or directories I want backed up by that DLE. In one final DLE starting from the same directory I use the exclude append directive to eliminate all the subdirs backed up by the earlier mentioned DLEs. This serves as a catchall for any dirs not specifically backed up by its own DLE. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
