On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 07:06:07PM -0500, Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
> Hello all after playing with amanda all week I have finally gotten into
> a situation were my entry in disklist file is to big. From what I've read
> amanda isn't smart enough to pick were it left off if it ran out of tape

"smart enough" sounds so judgemental :(   mods always welcome.

> it will attempt to start from the begining again. Because of this I was thinking 
> of making of these disklist.
> 
> Origianally I have a disklist of /home/data but unfortantely is is 92G but tape
> can't write a complete 92 gigs. So I was thinking of spliting this in 3's
> 
> 1) /home/data/directory 
> 2) /home/data/directory2
> 3) /home/data
> 
> What I would like is to do is backup 1) and 2) seperately, but
> once we get to 3 I don't want thost 2 directories to be backed up 
> from disk 3 
> 
> Now is this possible.

done all the time.

Have to use tar, not dump to do directories.
Set up a uniq dumptype for /home/data that differs only in the
exclude list file which would exclude directory and directory2
as well as all the usual suspects ... err directories.

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