Howdy,

I would like to use Networker to archive and groom a select subset of a
directory containing ~600k files (>800 GB) without having to break the
archive up into several thousand seperate jobs, or having to archive the
entire thing and manually groom the files. Looked into writing a custom
directive file, but this seems almost impossible given the very limited
regex support.

Here's an incomplete command line to illustrate what I need to archive
(the complete version is about 10x longer with many nested parentheses):

find /study/fMRI_tools/analysis | PERL -ne \
'print if m$/afni/\d{3}/(gng(/gng_[12])?|nbk)/mc(_acc|_fast)?$'

Watching the output of "nsrarchive -nv ..." indicates that uasm is
called for each file, but I'm lost on where this gets directed to. Is
it be possible to generate a script that would be the equivalent of
calling nsrarchive with clone, verify, groom, and annotation options
using something similar to the above command line to produce a list of
files?

Thanks for any advice,
coax

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"coax" <.@.> wrote in message
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> Howdy,
>
> I would like to use Networker to archive and groom a select subset of a
> directory containing ~600k files (>800 GB) without having to break the
> archive up into several thousand seperate jobs, or having to archive the
> entire thing and manually groom the files. Looked into writing a custom
> directive file, but this seems almost impossible given the very limited
> regex support.
>
> Here's an incomplete command line to illustrate what I need to archive
> (the complete version is about 10x longer with many nested parentheses):
>
> find /study/fMRI_tools/analysis | PERL -ne \
> 'print if m$/afni/\d{3}/(gng(/gng_[12])?|nbk)/mc(_acc|_fast)?$'
>
> Watching the output of "nsrarchive -nv ..." indicates that uasm is
> called for each file, but I'm lost on where this gets directed to. Is
> it be possible to generate a script that would be the equivalent of
> calling nsrarchive with clone, verify, groom, and annotation options
> using something similar to the above command line to produce a list of
> files?
>

I believe that you can call your own script to select the files and pass
this onto the networker backup program. ( in the clients view, program
entry. )

I suggest calling your legato support people, they should beable to explain
how to do this.

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