Hi All,
I have a Windows host I am trying to back up, on which I have the
Zamanda client. One of the directories is really huge (it has all the
departmental shares in it), and to make file retrieval times reasonable
(both in terms of time and amount of data required to extract), I
decided to break it down.
I have tested entering each (departmental) sub-directory individually,
and this works. Unfortunately, if I add more directories, I would need
to remember to add them to the disk list.
What I have tested is backing up the directories by letter (i.e., all
the directories that start with "a", all the directories that start with
"b", etc.), but I can't seem to make this work. The first attempt timed
out during the estimate, so I increased the "etimeout" in my amanda.conf
to 3600 seconds. The next attempt did not error out; it said it was
successful, but only spent 22 seconds backing up the DLE in question.
Of course this did not seem right, so I checked what was backed up using
"amrecover", and of course while disklist entry was available, it could
not find any files that were backed up.
I followed the examples at "How To: Split DLEs With Exclude Lists" at
<https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Split_DLEs_With_Exclude_Lists>.
Here is the DLE I created:
rcav-fs01 E:/SERVER_DATA/./a E:/SERVER_DATA {
zwc-compress
include "./[a]*"
} 1
By the way, what does the number after the curly braces supposed to be?
I put "1" because that was in the example I copied, but further down
on the wiki page in another example, the number used is "2"
The following DLE does work (i.e., specifying one of the sub-directories
explicitly):
rcav-fs01 E:/SERVER_DATA/accounting
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks! :-)
-Alan
