Amanda-Users

Re: how to split partitions

2006-04-03 01:48:36
Subject: Re: how to split partitions
From: Josef Wolf <jw AT raven.inka DOT de>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:38:57 +0200
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:34:59PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:

> That would mean that the estimate phase should be smart enough (may
> be add an option "autosplit" for those DLE's where you want that) to
> pick a few large subdirectories out and then split the DLE dynamically.

This is not what I have meant.  No autosplitting.  Just automatically
create appropriate exclude entries.  When one sees a DLE starts becoming
too big, just pich one of its subdirs and create a new DLE for this
directory, that's all.  No fiddling with exclude list entries any more.