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[Veritas-bu] Splitting large jobs

2005-03-04 10:27:22
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Splitting large jobs
From: jamesp AT hisser DOT org (jamesp AT hisser DOT org)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:27:22 +0000
How about doing what you suggest, then use a different policy to back up /big/
that excludes /big/mydocs ?

Cheers

James

Quoting Thomas Stewart <tstewart AT nibsc.ac DOT uk>:

> Hi,
> I have a 1TB volume mounted on /big, it mostly contains the users mydocs.
>
> At the moment I backup the box nightly to a 6 tape library using the
> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive, which works fine. However it is getting to the
> stage where the job that does /big is taking to long.
>
> Is there any way to automatically split the job up, so that it can make use
> of
> the other tape drives in the library that are idle?
>
> So far my only thought is to split it manually by changing the backup
> selections to something like:
> /
> NEW_STREAM
> /big/mydocs/[0-9A-Za-m]*
> NEW_STREAM
> /big/mydocs/[n-z]*
> NEW_STREAM
>
> However that then leaves out /big/*
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Regards
> --
> Tom
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