(See brian, i�m posting your message on the list, ok?) Oh, Let�s see if I correctly understood your problem: you need to backup your user directories, like /home/brian, /home/john, /home/melissa, (etc). But you can�t simply make a backup of your entire /home directory. So you, basically, would need a disklist file with the following entries:
machine1 /home/brian comp-root-tar machine1 /home/jon comp-root-tar machine1 /home/melissa comp-root-tar (and so on for every user directory) However, you don�t want to manually edit the disklist file every time you create and delete a user. Is this right? Well, the first thing that occurred to me is to do a script that runs before amdump which would check what are the valid user directories of your machine and would write these names in the disklist file. (actually, it would write the correct disklist file entries, one for each directory). If someone know anything better, share with us. Hope it helps, Bruno. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Cuttler" To: "Bruno Negr�o" Cc: "Brian Cuttler" Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Using amanda with just 1 tape - for testing - SOLVED Bruno, I realized you are writing about tapecycle (my latest guess was that a tapecycle of 0 is a problem) but as long as you are using tar rather than dump I've got a question. I've got a couple of large partitions that I'd like to move from dump to tar, but only specific partitions within the disklist and I don't know now to divide up the data ? Dividing at highest level on the partition by username might work ok (directories at that level named for the data owner) but I don't really want to maintain the disklist (look to see if it needs updating everytime I create/remove a user data area). Are you doing anything like this ? I'm in need of the feature for both Solaris/IRIX servers/clients. What version of amanda are you running ? Or rather, what is the min version that supports what I'm hoping to do ? thanks, Brian
