On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:36:27PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Hi, Chris,
> on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 19:20 you wrote to amanda-users:
> CL> It would be great if we could tell amanda that all subdirectories of a
> CL> specific root were to be treated as individual disk list entries. i.e.
> CL> balance all sub directories across backups.
> I don't want to sound lazy, but isn't this solved pretty easily by
> some kind of shell-script that you run regularly?

This is the kind of laziness all good sysadmins should practice. ;)

> If this script "find"s some new directory inside that given
> dle-root-directory it appends a new DLE to your disklist.
> Find all the dirs under dle-root-dir, compare them to a list of
> already existing DLEs, if something is new, add DLE to disklist.
> I have to admit that this new auto-DLE-feature inside AMANDA would
> also look good to me ;-)
> This would mean we would need some kind of new parameter inside
> amanda.conf, maybe "dleroot yes/no (default: no)" ?
> PAW
> (according to Jon LaBadie this means
> "Stefan G. Weichinger writes : Patches Always Welcome")
> ;-)
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