Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:

I have a little situation here: a large disk partition (500GB) to be
backed up using amanda with LTO 100GB tapes in a STK-L40 library.
Trying to break up that partition in chunks less than 100GB is a bit
difficult: one subdir contains more than 100GB but
also has something close to 2000 subdirs. Any suggestions on how to
break that up using an exclude file?

Look in the source directory examples/disklist, the last example.

Using amanda-2.4.3 or later:


bigserver /bigdirAM /bigdir {
        comp-user-tar
        include "./[a-m]*"
        } 1

bigserver /bigdirNZ /bigdir {
        comp-user-tar
        include "./[n-z]"
        } 1

bigserver /bigdirREST /bigdir {
        comp-user-tar
        exclude append "./[a-m]"
        exclude append "./[n-z]"
        }