On Monday 22 July 2002 20:06, [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 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
Nope, you'll have to continue with /home/directory3, home/directory4 etc. Unless you want to write up a filelist of excludes that lists the ones already done and pass that to the backup spec for /home/data. But then the remains must fit on a tape too... Do they? But lets take this as an opportunity to clear up something else that the average newbie *might* think is carved in stone and maybe add this to the FAQ even: Please note that one is NOT constrained by the choice of backup specifications currently included in the amanda.conf file. Those are the most common candidates, but there isn't a thing to prevent you from building your own backup spec by suitable cut&paste or imaginative editing to make up a whole new specification. You could write a spec for each entry in your disklist if there is a visible advantage to doing so. Making a special, for this situation, exclude file is quite within the realm of customising how amanda works. I've done it here. Just give that exclude file a unique name, and use that unique name in your spec as the exclude file. Its that easy. >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. I'm going to assume you forget the question mark above. see above. :-) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.07% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
