On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 September 2004 11:57, Alex Owen wrote: > > > >I was wondering how ready is the span-and-split patch for production > > use? Also is there any plan to get this merged into the amanda > > development branch and from there into the stable branch? > > > There has been a rather entrenched resistance to such ideas in the > amanda camp, mainly because the dependability of such a setup is > reduced considerably by the act of changing the tape. [SNIP] > I don't think anything that effects that dependability will ever make it > into mainline.
I understand reluctance to make amanda less reliable. I use it at work _because_ it is relaiable. However I'm sure that some scheme where by span-and-split is made "optional" and the current code path is used for "starndard" backups could be arrived at. Anyhow seeing as John Stange the span-and-split patch author says is is "alpha-quality" then such discussion is moot! On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, John Stange wrote: > I still consider it alpha-quality. There are a couple of known bugs > with my current patch (one critical, albeit with a workaround), which > I've been too mired in work projects to address. I hope to get back to > it in the next few weeks and knock those down. > > The patch, for interested parties, is here: > > http://www.cs.umd.edu/~building/span_split_2.4.5-current.patch.gz Maybe when the patch gets to Beta-quality some kind of scheme do get it merged into the amanda development branch can be hammered out... Until then may all your backups be sucessful! Alex Owen
