Thank you all for your suggestions!
Greatly appreciated!
jf

* Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com> [20031007 17:19]:
> 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]"
>       }
> 
> 

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