Re: Sizes don't fit?

Paul Bijnens wrote:

On 2006-03-16 13:48, listrcv wrote:

prometheus:/tmp/xxx# tar -cf test.tar -T include .



When using -T you should not specify a list of things
to backup on the command line as well, i.e. omit the final dot.


Oh! :)

Maybe I just have to try it out ... :/



Yes, indeed!

I'm somewhat stuck with it. I need some doc on the format of thedisklist to understand the example in the FAQ:



fatboy  /bigmama_BIGDIR  /bigmama {     # a big subdirectory
comp-user-tar
include "./bigdir"
}
fatboy  /bigmama_FILES01 /bigmama {     # all files beginning with...
nocomp-user-tar
include "./file[01]*"
}

The 'fatboy' is the server? What is bigmama_BIGDIR and bigmama_FILES01?And why is every thing called /bigmama?


Using


prometheus      /home/a*        tar-dfault-no-x
prometheus      /home/b*        tar-dfault-no-x
[...]


doesn't work, amcheck complains:

ERROR: prometheus: [could not access /home/z* (/home/z*): No such fileor directory]ERROR: prometheus: [could not access /home/y* (/home/y*): No such fileor directory]

[...]


Would it be something like this?


prometheus /home_a /home {
  tar-dfault-no-x
  include "/home/a*"
  exclude "/home/[!a]*"
}

prometheus /home_b /home {
  tar-dfault-no-x
  include "/home/b*"
  exclude "/home/[!b]*"
}
[...]
prometheus /home_rest /home {
  tar-dfault-no-x
  include "/home/[!a-z]*"
  exclude "/home/[a-z]*"
}


GH