On Thursday 30 January 2003 15:23, 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
> curly /data/linux     high-tar
> curly /data/pics      high-tar
> curly /data/mydocs    high-tar
>
> The linux, pics, and mydocs are correct.

You answer your own question, if you only stood back a little. What's the 
difference between the ones that work and the ones that don't ?

Still don't see it ?

The * - disklists can't use wildcards. So if /data/apps is too big for one 
tape, you have to split it up by fully qualified subdirectory names. If it 
happens that /data/apps is 10 G, which is a tad big for a DDS 2, and that 
happens to be split up into 100 directories, each of which contains (on 
average) 100M, then you'll have to have a disklist with 100 entries.

On the plus side, doing that will give you very good tape usage :-)




Niall  O Broin