On Monday 02 September 2002 21:32, Dale Clapperton (lists) wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Potentially stupid question..  Does AMANDA support backing up only
> a certain directory on a host (ie /var/log for example) or only
> whole partitions (ie /var) ??

Sure, but you have to use tar.

>Couldnt seem to find an answer to this on the site or in the FAQ,
> and all the examples only seem to refer to partitions.

Most times the whole partition is the target, unless its bigger than 
a tape, in which case you break the disklist down into usable hunks 
of data by specing not the root of the partition, but a series of 
its subdirs that will each fit a tape.  I do that with a 36 gig 
/usr on 4 gig tapes here.

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