> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:56:07AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > > > > > >With tar, > > >... , this can be done by breaking the disklist > > >entries up into subdirs, > > > > Yes, that's what I'm doing. The problem with this is that something > easily > > gets left out as new directories are created. > > This is pretty easy to solve with a separate dumptype and excludelist > for the toplevel directory. For example I have a large fs called /w. > Under it are several large, seldom changing dirs, call them a, c, and e. > But there are also other more active and smaller dirs called b, d, and > ... > where ... might be changing. > > In my disklist I have entries /w/a, /w/c, and /w/e using my normal tar > dumptype and and exclude list file that excludes ./tmp, ./dumps, ... > > I also have a disklist entry for /w using a dumptype named "normal tar > dumptype"-w and an exclude list file named "..."-w. It excluded ./tmp, > ./dumps, and all the same stuff but also ./a, ./c, and ./e. Ah, of course. Never thought of that ;-/
It would perhaps be even simpler to keep everything consistent if you could have multiple "exclude" entries in dumptype spec, but I understand this is possible in Amanda 2.4.3. - Toralf
