A customer we're backing up has a directory with ~500 subdirs and
hundreds of GiB of data.  We're using BackupPC in rsync+ssh mode.

As a first pass at breaking that up, I made a bunch of seperate host
entries like /A/*0, /A/*1, ... (all the dirs have numeric names).

That seems to select the right files, but it doesn't work because
BackupPC ends up running a bunch of them at once, hammering that
customer's machine.

I could make those into share names, but I'm worried about running
out of command-line argument space in that case; that is, that
"rsync /A/*0" will at some point in the future expand to a hundred
or more directories and break.

What I want to do is have a bunch of shares like [ "/A", "/A", ...],
and have something like:

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
  "/A" => "/A/*0",
  "/A" => "/A/*1",
  "/A" => "/A/*2",
  }

But obviously that's not going to work.

Does anyone have any other way to handle this?

-Robin

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