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Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:52:32 PDT
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Backup to hard drive not allowed ?

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Peter,

Your directory tree configuration is apparently something you control.
Is there any good reason all those directories have to be in one
partition? Have you ever considered breaking that into manageable sized
chunks. You have been considering breaking the zip file into smaller
pieces, the easy way to break the zip file is to break the partition.

Ray

Peter Skye wrote:
>
>>
> Without a "range" selection I'm pretty much stuck. I have several
> thousand directories on my main machine and I'm not going to
> individually specify where each one goes. The root directory has about
> 120 directories, and one of those directories holds half the drive's
> files and has about 550 subdirectories in it. So that's almost 700
> directories I would have to manually administer if I wanted to segment
> the drive's backup using an "Include/Exclude" capability.
>
> - Peter
>

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