On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brian Cuttler <[email protected]> wrote: > Virtual DLEs !?! > > That is EXACTLY what we need ! > > I know you warned us, but I'm REALLY Excited about this ! > > That would _so_ fix my Terrabyte sized DLE problem...
Yes, yes it would. It would fix a lot of problems! I don't think it's the right solution to the problem, though. It takes as fundamental Amanda's funny notion of DLEs and exclusion lists, and tries to build a working system around that. If it could work in a way that makes any sense to the user, I might be convinced, but as it stands there are some *very* significant unanswered questions, and probably a lot of more subtle problems, too. Instead, we should look at how other backup software handles similar problems, and consider throwing out some long-standing Amanda weakne^Wfeatures. You can see why this becomes a contentious issue very quickly. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
