On Friday 20 June 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Paul Yeatman > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, I really do have tapes that old. Is that unusual? > >Not really, but it does end up being a lot of logfiles, as you indicate :) > >Someday (>>wistful sigh<<) we'll have a DB-backed catalog, so folks >like you with lots of tapes won't have to worry about manually >manipulating this stuff. And hopefully we can be a bit more succinct >in how the catalog is stored. > >Dustin
We could stand that now Dustin. The problem as I see it though is in compressing it while still maintaining it in a human readable format. This, for bare metal recovery operations that really do need human intervention, would seem to be a "prime directive". Anything else is just frosting on the cake. OTOH, on my small (about 3/4 terrabytes of drives) and virtual tape setup, the logs seem to hover at around 250 megs, so basically I'm complaining just to be doing something, and can be safely ignored. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) * joeyh_ runs ps and sees 10 lines of awk code * joeyh_ recoils in horror
