Re: breaking up harddrives for gtar
2004-08-31 17:44:23
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:57:42PM -0400, Jason Castonguay wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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"
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> 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.
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Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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