On 30 Jan 2003 at 10:23am, Jeff Borders wrote

> I've got a dds2 drive and need to split up a big directory so the images
> will fit on a tape.  I've read posts and docs but I'm not doing
> something right.  I don't understand the example of this in the
> amanda-2.4.3/example/disklist file.  Here is a sample of what I'm trying
> to do:
> 
> curly /data/apps/[0-9]*       high-tar
> curly /data/apps/[A-H]*       high-tar
> curly /data/apps/[I-P]*       high-tar
> curly /data/apps/[Q-Z]*       high-tar
> curly /data/apps/[a-z]*       high-tar

You can't put wildcards and regexy type stuff in the directory entry.  You 
need to do the top level directory there, and then modify the dumptype 
(that's the stuff inside curly brackets in the examples) using include and 
exclude statements.  Those are explained in the amanda(8) man page.

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