On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 at 10:01pm, yam wrote

> I have changed back to random mode, and decided to go for the splitting up
> way, but I have a main doubt since I have a big fs.
> 
> How can I split up a one terabyte filesystem (whose directories I dont
> know its size) in 30~40GB amanda disklist entries so I can back it up
> using amanda? Using tar? What do you mean?

There's an example in the disklist in the examples directory in 2.4.3+.  
You just break the fs into many disklist entries, each a subdirectory of 
the large fs.  You do incur overhead as to monitoring your DLEs to make 
sure that they don't get too big.  But it's the only way.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University