On Monday 22 July 2002 23:15, Jon LaBadie wrote: >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.
As usual, you said it in fewer words, Jon. And I forgot to emphasize that one would have to use tar, but then, from his disklist, *I* assumed (without even thinking about it) that the choice of tar had already been made. But I should have mentioned it anyway, thanks. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.07% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
