Hi, Paul, on Freitag, 23. Jänner 2004 at 17:30 you wrote to amanda-users:
papc> I looked at this and got a little confused. papc> Do the directories '/diskA/all', '/diskA/ag', and '/diskA/big' papc> actually exist, or are they simply labels being used to keep things papc> organized? Have a look in the amanda-manpage. In the section DISKLIST FILE you will find the explanation (yes, they are kind of labels). papc> I have the following directory structure: papc> /u1/backup/act-of-god papc> /u1/backup/archive papc> /u1/backup/bad-for-business papc> /u1/backup/build papc> /u1/backup/cvs-repos papc> /u1/backup/rt papc> /u1/backup/sw papc> I'd like each of these subdirs of /u1/backup to be separate backup papc> volumes. To accomplish that, do I do something like this: papc> jpt /u1/backup/all /u1/backup { papc> # Exclude everything that's explicitly named papc> # if we add a directory later, but forget to add it here papc> # it will be picked up automagically papc> non-user-high-tar papc> exclude "./act-of-god" papc> exclude append "./archive" papc> exclude append "./bad-for-business" papc> exclude append "./cvs-repos" papc> exclude append "./rta" papc> exclude append "./software" papc> exclude append "./build" papc> } 1 You could do but better use the "exclude list" parameter. Something like: jpt /u1/backup/all /u1/backup { # Exclude everything that's explicitly named # if we add a directory later, but forget to add it here # it will be picked up automagically non-user-high-tar exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/backup-excludes" } 1 with the file /usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/backup-excludes containing: ./act-of-god ./archive ./bad-for-business ./some-directory-to-be-excluded And after that you list the dirs to be INcluded like this: jpt /u1/backup/act-of-god non-user-high-tar 1 jpt /u1/backup/archive non-user-high-tar 1 ..... The dumpsize for /u1/backup should be nearly nothing and so you can check if your excludes work out fine. If it gets bigger maybe some new directory has been created or some exclude does not work as intended. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]