On Wednesday 11 January 2006 18:20, Cameron Matheson wrote: >Hi, > >Amanda has been working wonderfully for me ever since I started using > it about a year ago. I do have one question though, that plagues me > every time I try to confront it: > >I have one directory on one of my boxes that holds files for customers >(each customer gets a subdirectory (the subdirectory seems to just be > a customer number... so it's mostly sequential unless a customer gets > deleted. The size of these directories varies widely (anywhere from > a few megabytes to 15 gigabytes). All in all there is a little under > 200GB of data that needs to be backed up. Initially I had just been > going through the list of directories myself and compiling 15GB > chunks of them to be backed up, but due to the ever-changing nature > of these directories it's kind of a pain to keep up w/ that. Is > there any way I could have amanda automatically split this directory > up into chunks to be backed up? Or, does anyone else have any keen > ideas on how one might approach this problem? > The only solution that I can think of is a DLE per customer. But if you have thousands, then I don't know if its been tested at that scale. One thing it would do is to help isolate the users from each other, and that can only be good from a security aspect.
Otherwise just make it in groups that would average 1 or 2 GB using a regex expression. But thats beyond my level of 'expertise'. >Thanks, >Cameron Matheson -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
