On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:57:42PM -0400, Jason Castonguay wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Right now I am using amanda for a few different linux servers. My disklists 
> use the directories where different partitions are mounted. This has been 
> working pretty well, but I read somewhere that one can get even better 
> results by breaking things up to as many small directories as one can. This 
> makes sense to me, as it will allow amanda to schedule different level 
> backups the best she can even if it makes things perhaps more difficult to 
> keep track of.
> 
> So I collected on each client the names of the harddrives for it.
> 
> find / -type d -fprintf ~/amandalist "`hostname -f`\t\t%p\tcomp-user-tar\n"
> 
> and I have an idea to exclude all subdirectories in the dumptype, but then I 
> run into the problem of users creating and removing their own subdirectories 
> and then dealing with those. Do people who advocate this sort of setup 
> generate their disklist each time they run amanda? or do they not have to 
> deal with this problem? What is the best use of gtar?
> 

I do it with a set of disk list entries all with the same
starting directory but different uniq "tag" names.  In most
I use the include directive (or include append) to list the
subdirectory or directories I want backed up by that DLE.
In one final DLE starting from the same directory I use the
exclude append directive to eliminate all the subdirs backed
up by the earlier mentioned DLEs.  This serves as a catchall
for any dirs not specifically backed up by its own DLE.

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