On Tuesday 20 May 2003 21:16, Mats Blomstrand wrote:
>> Not a great explanation, but the best I can do on short notice.
>
>Thanks for trying, but im still stuck.
>
>Now i have tried ...
>       /home/blom/05
>       /home/blom/Mail
>and
>       ./05
>       ./Mail
>and
>       05*
>       Mail*
>and
>       ./05*
>       ./Mail*
>
>in the exclude-file. And none of them is working. I still get the
> "dump larger than tape" message.
>
>Any more ideas?
>//Mats

No, other than breaking it down into subdirs, one per DLE, which is 
what I've done here.  In fact, I don't have a / in the disklist at 
all, but entries along the lines of:

/usr/src
/boot
/home
/var
/usr/dlds
/usr/local
/bin
/etc
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin

etc, etc, with about 42 entries ATM.  That which I don't want to be 
included in the backup simply doesn't have a DLE.

This has lead to a tendency to use / as a temporary dumping ground 
for transient stuff thats not going to be missed in the event I'd 
have to format and recover to almost bare metal.  I do go around 
and 'clean out the trash' from time to time, but none of that stuff 
makes it to the backup, and therefore wastes no space on the tapes.
By this mechanism, I can break each DLE down to a smaller amount 
which the planner can handle better, resulting in a better fill of 
the tape in most cases.  Just don't forget, when you have more than 
1 drive, to make use of the 'spindle number' in the DLE, which will 
be used to help prevent disk thrashing because there are several 
tasks all attacking the same drive simultainiously.

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