On Monday 14 October 2002 04:56, Toralf Lund wrote: [...] >Yes, that's what I'm doing. The problem with this is that > something easily gets left out as new directories are created. > >How about > >1. Allowing wildcards in the disklist file >2. Having some kind of "auto expansion" mode, where a directory in > the disklist file would be traversed recursively and replaced > with its "leaf" or "level n" sub directories.
I believe that one can use regex expressions to break it up alphabeticly, like one entry to cover [a*-c*], the next for [d*-g*] etc, but I've no idea of the exact syntax required as I've never done that. And of course, that implys using tar, settle for no less than 1.13-25 in the version number. Jon, etc, please feel free to jump in and correct me here, I'm sinking. [...] >I tried Arkeia some years ago, and was rather disappointed by it. > It did not seem very flexible at all when it came to the > specification of what data to be backed up. That was my finding also. Pretty gui doesn't always do the job IMO. It certainly isn't, at least as of a year ago, an 'intuitive' thing to run. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.18% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
