Emm..
thanx for the replies. I am lucky in that alot of the files on that disk
are tempory but I will need a long term solution. I will check VDUMP
and the switches. The major hurdle with DUMP is it only does
volumes. Alot of suggestions to use vdump instead. Phil Hood
thinks that
vdump -D .../vol/subdirectoryx can do it.
Bryan Rank suggests vdump -C to compress the data.
I will look in that but the TX88 DLT drive we use has the
compression light on and I think thats about as much compression
as I can get.
Also the find and either tar or cpio suggestion appeared alot. This is
useful for those disks where there is a mix of critical and temporary
data.
For the time being I have asked the culprit to move the files off the
system. In fact I could exclude the whole volume as 50% is a cpio
of a database which is simultaniously put onto DAT. Better get to
those man pages.
Special thank to
Hahling, Werner
N.M.Hill_at_rl.ac.uk
Bryan Rank
Stuart Whitby
ruhnke_at_us.ibm.com
Dr. Tom Blinn
<phil.hood_at_jewson.co.uk>
Jim Bodie
Original message below:
Hi managers,
I have a problem with my backup script. The problem is the file
system now exceeds the capacity of my DLT drive. I need to
remove some directories from the backup script but am unsure how.
At present the backup script has the following lines to backup the
whole of the disk:
dump -0uf /dev/nrmt1h /dev/rz17c >> ${ROOTLOG}dlt_backup.log
2>&1
I need to exclude some folders but still backup the rest of rz17c.
Can you specify directories with DUMP or will I need to find another
solution?
thanx in advance
Dp
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