Amanda-Users

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

2004-02-04 11:11:31
Subject: Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?
From: stan <stanb AT panix DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:04:11 -0500
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:23:20PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 at 7:16pm, stan wrote
> 
> > I've got a couple of 120G disk that contain files in a serries of
> > directories. I need to split these up to allow my DLT40 tape to back up
> > smaller checks.
> > 
> > What I have in mind is something like this:
> > 
> > /foo/bar/[A-J]*
> > /foo/bar/[K-z]*
> > 
> > But if I put that in the disklist file amcheck says it's invalid. 
> > 
> > Is there any way I can acomplish this?
> 
> This is a *very* frequently asked question (in fact we just finished a 
> thread on this).  The list archives should be rife with examples (as is 
> the disklist included in the amanda tarball).  If those don't help you 
> out, come on back with your disklist file and the exact errors you're 
> getting.
> 
Thanks, It's been a long time since I looked at changing Amanda. I see much
progress ahs been made. The whole { ... } in disklist is new.

Thanks, again.

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