On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:41:27PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > The problem with deciding about the errors is more difficult when > you look closer. > > - Some people leave the tape drive empty on purpose, and when enough > dumps are collected in the holdingdisk, they insert the tape, and all > the dumps get autoflushed to tape.
I'm doing this also, (on vtapes, via cron). > - Some people have laptops in their disklist, and "results missing" > is normal for those PC's. However, results missing on your production > file server is very important. So it might be a good idea to make "results missing" (or, maybe other errors, too?) behavior depandant on the host. > - Many people have "file changed as we read it" warnings, and most of > these are harmless. But sometimes NOT. > That's why I extended my list of reg.expressions to suppress those > warnings only for particular files only. I always wondered how to distinguish the harmful from the harmles. You dare to share your wisdom? > So, implementing this inside Amanda for general use is difficult. > Implementing a filter in perl for your own use should be easy enough. I disagree with this. Asking the (end)user to implement their filters in perl is somewhat arrogant, I think... Instead, there should be an interface to specify the severity of a specific problem. Soemthing like /host.regex.do.main/ /results missing/ IGNORE m!host.com:/var/mail/.*! /file changed/ IGNORE Forcing people to implement those things on their own invites people to introduce errors without even knowing about the fact that they have an error.
