I have done this sort of thing by using multiple policies and exclude
lists, e.g.
Policy 1 :  /big/mydocs/[0-9A-Za-m]*
Policy 2 :  /big/mydocs/[n-z]*
Policy 3 :  /big                Exclude_list contains
/big/mydocs/[0-9a-z]*
Policy is a catch-all to ensure nothing is missed.
Some combination of this should work ... it's a bit messy though.


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Stewart [mailto:tstewart AT nibsc.ac DOT uk] 
Sent: 04 March 2005 12:46
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Splitting large jobs


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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