On Monday 27 October 2003 17:24, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:18:57PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> This isn't your problem, but that won't work.  Amanda stays within
>> a partition when doing backups.  You'll need one entry for each of
>> those partitions.
>
>Just an FYI, a while back I played and found you could have a
>single DLE that could backup multiple partitions.
>
>The DLE had as its base directory something high in the mount
>tree and then used "include"s to specify mount points below that.
>I think it was something like this:
>
>  host symbolic_name / {
>       include ./opt/local
>       include append ./var
>       include append ./etc
>  }
>
>
>The net result of this was a single backup of all of /var FS,
>one directory tree of /opt FS, and the /etc directory tree of / FS.

Interesting, or would be if I had the tape capacity to do that.

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