On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:50:02PM -0400, Luc Lalonde wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> What are your recommendations for spliting directories with excludes 
> without having to reorganize directories in a partition that I want to 
> backup?
> 
> Basically, I want:
> 
> client   /foo/a*   dumptype-a
> client  /foo/b*    dumptype-b
> .
> client /foo/z*      dumptype-z
> 

define dumptype common-stuff {
        ...
}

client  FooA    /foo    {
        common-stuff
        include file "./a*"
}
....
client  FooZ    /foo    {
        common-stuff
        include file "./z*"
}

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