I'm runing amanda on solaris 9 and fairly recently ran into
a situation where the drive (RAID array) was too large to fit
on a single volume of tape.

We resolved this by dividing the partition into segments and
using gtar for backups.

(for /maildb2/one through /maildb2/five)
wcnotes  /maildb2/one {
        user-tar
        }

wcnotes  /maildb2/two {
        user-tar
        }

We have now run out of room for backing up /maildb, a smaller
partition but now occupying more than an LTO drive can handle.

Unfortunately it is not neatly divided into 5 discrete directories
but rather has a flat structure, (LNotes server, each user having
their own database file).

I would like to divide this partition up into tar segements, and
because of the nature of the data would like to do it properly the
first time - so I'm asking about syntax and whether or not I can
do something on the order of...

wcnotes  /maildb/[a-f] {
        user-tar
        }

wcnotes  /maildb/[g-k] {
        user-tar
        }

and so on.

Can I do this, and if so, what is the proper syntax ?

If only the new LTO3 was online...

                                                thank you,

                                                Brian
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   Brian R Cuttler                 brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org
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