On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:28:29PM +0100, Chris Lee wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea for Amanda to > > write a footer file to tape after completing a dump providing a record > > of the tapes needed to produce a full restore to the state the system > > was in when this tape was written. > > I don't use amanda in a way that this would be very useful to me, it is > > only for home backups and I have a dumpcycle of 2 so I just need the > > last 3 tapes and I am sure to have all I need. However I was thinking in > > situations where longer dumpcycles and lots of DLEs are common it could > > help with restores if you lose Amanda and her data. > > The footer file would just be a list of the tapes from the last level 0 > > to now for each DLE. > > > > For example a file formatted like this, so anyone can read it without > > Amanda's help: > > /home/bob { //Tapes needed for this DLE > > DailySet3 0 Thursday 17/08/2006 > > DailySet4 1 Friday 18/08/2006 > > DailySet5 2 Monday 21/08/2006 > > } > > /home/anne { //Tapes Needed for this DLE > > DailySet5 0 Monday 21/08/2006 > > } > > etc. > > > > Restore Set { //list of all tapes needed for all DLEs > > DailySet3 Thursday 17/08/2006 > > DailySet4 Friday 18/08/2006 > > DailySet5 Monday 21/08/2006 > > } > > > > Interesting idea. A 32KB trailer file is, I believe, already added > to the last tape used in a dump. I'm not sure I like the idea of > adding this data, either as a last file before the trailer, or as > part of the trailer. In a large installation it could get quite > large and could result in an extra tape being used if the last > DLE nearly filled the tape.
IIRC, Gene has a script to add this info. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds