Hi, C.Scheeder,

on Dienstag, 23. September 2003 at 12:00 you wrote to amanda-users:

CS> Hi,

CS> yes, amrecover uses disklist.

CS> To accomplish what you want, i would do the following:
CS> add an excludelist to the dle "/mydisk/bigdir"
CS> excluding "/mydsik/bigdir/smalldir[1-n]"
CS> and leave it in the disklist.
CS> this way you get 2 for the price of one:
CS> - amanda will happily restore the old backups,
CS> - if somehow a new dir gets created in "/mydisk/bigdir"
CS>    and you miss to give it his own dle-entry it will get catched
CS>    by the dle with the excludelist, and you'll see its size increase
CS>    in your daily mailreports.....

Cool trick!
Things are that easy if you think about them ;-)

thank you.

best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at