On Monday 15 May 2006 08:06, Josef Wolf wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:54:33PM -0700, jeffrey d anderson wrote: > > I've begun using the new tape spanning feature of amanda 2.4.5 and it > > seems to work quite well. > > [ ... ] > > > Periodically I pull a set of tapes from my changer to be set aside for > > archival purposes. In the past I have relied on `amadmin info` to tell > > me what tapes would need to be pulled to have a full dumpcycle. Now it > > seems, with tape spanning, this information is not quite accurate. > > > > I'm not quite sure what the solution is, since this is a new condition > > for amanda (a single DLE dump not residing on a single tape). > > You might check out the amandatape utility I posted to this list on Feb, > 14. It reports correctly the information you need. But make sure you also > apply the patch I posted on Feb, 17.
Thanks, I'll check it out. Just to clarify my original post, I know how to get the information I need from the amanda logs. I just wondered if any of the developers had given any thought to modifying the amadmin output to accomodate tape spanning, since it is currently inaccurate. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Anderson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-6808
