In fact, direcTIVEs.   He suggested something like this:

Play with skip or allow rule, Adding a + (+skip/+allow) apply
the rule recusively

Backupign all dirs not beginning by 0.... to 9....
             << "E:\\"  >>
                         skip: [A-Z]*.*
                         skip: [A-Z]*
                         skip: [a-z]*.*
                         skip: [a-z]*

backup dirs from L... to Z ....
             << "E:\\"  >>
                         skip: [0-9]*.*
                         skip: [0-9]*
                         skip: [A-K]*.*
                         skip: [A-K]*
                         skip: [a-k]*.*
                         skip: [a-k]*

backup dirs from A... to K ....
             << "E:\\"  >>
                         skip: [0-9]*.*
                         skip: [0-9]*
                         skip: [L-Z]*.*
                         skip: [L-Z]*
                         skip: [l-z]*.*
                         skip: [l-z]*


-ty

Phillip T. ("Ty") Young, DMA
Manager, Data Center and Backup/Recovery Services
Information Services
i2 Technologies, Inc.


                                                                           
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                                       RE: [Networker] regular expressions 
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Directives or Directories?

I did this with our monster file services server. But what we did was
design our file server around backup/archive services in that we created
4 MAIN directories and moved the other directories underneath them.

F:\stream1
             5k directories/250GB
F:\stream2
             5k directories/250GB
F:\stream3
             5k directories/250GB
F:\stream4
             5k directories/250GB

If you are using a product like ScriptLogic for drive/printer
assignments it makes it easy to make these changes without the users
even noticing...

Food for thought, hope you don't get food poisoning. /ALE

> I want to know if it's possible to specify a regular
> expression in the saveset field for a given client in order
> to split up one very very large
> F:\ drive into multiple streams.    Thierry was very helpful
> in making a
> suggestion that closely resembles this but uses directives
> instead of the saveset field itself.
>
> The goal is to end up with, say, 4 simultaneous streams of
> data as follows:
>
> F:\[A-G]* get backed up on one stream
> F:\[H-M]* get backed up on another
> F:\[N-T]*  ditto
> F:\[U-Z]*   ditto

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