I've written an article about amanda and I've got a question of a referee :
If a user has lost a file in the past but does not know when, how to get the last version of it in a simple way ? Since amrecover needs a date to look for first, it seems hard to me and the only way I see is to sort all the index by decreasing date and to grep it for the asked file (thanks to simple file formats used in Amanda :-) ). By the way, an other stuff related with long archives with amanda (we have tapes from around 1995) is that files may move around partitions and even amanda instance (we use 3 different tapers). That means that for example you are looking for a file that was in /users/lit/keryell/TeX/ five years ago but I cannot remember on which machine and partition it was... Thus I need to add a loop on amanda instance, a loop on machines and a loop to partitions to the previous method. Well, anyway this case never happen yet, but... PS : for the article in french it is at : http://www.cri.ensmp.fr/~keryell/publications/conf/2001/JRES2001/amanda/ -- Ronan KERYELL |\/ Labo Informatique T�l�com |/) Tel: (+33|0) 2.29.00.14.15 ENST Bretagne, BP832 K Fax: (+33|0) 2.29.00.12.82 29285 PLOUZANE CEDEX |\ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE | \ http://www-info.enst-bretagne.fr/~keryell
