On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:41:51PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
> OK maybe I should get flogged, but today I had/have to split a GNUTAR DLE 
> into a couple of pieces.  The problem is I'm just cutting this dir in 
> half.... [a-m]* in one, and [n-z]* in another....  What I'm drawing a blank 
> on is they're both in the same 'root' directory.... lets use /home/u1/ for 
> arguments sake, so...how do I make two separate DLEs like that with 
> different 'names' on the backup... I'm pretty sure it's possible, I'm just 
> not seeing the example I was thinking of anywhere.
> 

from the man page the syntax of a disklist entry is defined as:

  hostname diskname [diskdevice] dumptype [spindle [interface]]

Note the diskdevice is optional.
You have been using the device name as the diskname (I like to
think of them as DLEnames as diskname sounds like the device.

So you can have "host foo /home/u1" and "host bar /home/u1".
It is "host and name" which must be unique, not device.

You could even try some form of clarifying names:

   host /home/u1-a2m /home/u1 ...
   host /home/u1-n2z /home/u1 ...

BTW no possibility of A-Z or 0-9 or ???, just l.c. letters?



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