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.\" Title: disklist
.\" Author: James da Silva <jds@amanda.org>
-.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot_8273 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-.\" Date: 10/18/2010
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.76.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Date: 07/25/2012
.\" Manual: File formats and conventions
-.\" Source: Amanda 3.2.0
+.\" Source: Amanda 3.3.2
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "DISKLIST" "5" "10/18/2010" "Amanda 3\&.2\&.0" "File formats and conventions"
+.TH "DISKLIST" "5" "07/25/2012" "Amanda 3\&.3\&.2" "File formats and conventions"
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * Define some portability stuff
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
+.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
+.el .ds Aq '
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * set default formatting
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.PP
The
\fIdisklist\fR
-file determines which disks will be backed up by Amanda\&. The file usually contains one line per disk:
+file determines which disks will be backed up by Amanda\&. The file contains
+\fBincludefile\fR
+directive or disklist entry (\fBDLE\fR)\&.
+.PP
+\fBincludefile\fR \fIstring\fR
+.RS 4
+Default:
+\fIno default\fR\&. The name of a disklist file to include within the current file\&. Useful for sharing disklist among several configurations\&. Relative pathnames are relative to the configuration directory\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+A
+\fBDLE\fR
+usually contains one line per disk:
.nf
\fIhostname diskname\fR [\fIdiskdevice\fR] \fIdumptype\fR [\fIspindle\fR [\fIinterface\fR] ]
.fi
\fBdiskname\fR
to the
\fBdiskdevice\fR
-and you don\'t set the
+and you don\*(Aqt set the
\fBdiskdevice\&.\fR
If you want multiple entries with the same
\fBdiskdevice\fR, you must set a different
\fBdiskname\fR
-for each entry\&. It\'s the
+for each entry\&. It\*(Aqs the
\fBdiskname\fR
that you use on the commandline for any Amanda command\&. Look at the example/disklist file for example\&.
.RE
\fBamanda\&.conf\fR
file\&.
\fIDumptype\fRs specify backup related parameters, such as whether to compress the backups, whether to record backup results in
-/etc/dumpdates, the disk\'s relative priority, etc\&.
+/var/lib/dumpdates, the disk\*(Aqs relative priority, etc\&.
.RE
.PP
\fIspindle\fR