On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if a syntax extension that would be backward compatible is > possible. Blue-skying here, maybe a single argument with a separator > between host and disk. Something like 'host|disk' or 'host/disk'.
For those playing along at home, by the way, this is all summed up nicely in the amanda-match(7) manpage. http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-match.7.html Back when I was implementing 'amadmin holding ..', I considered defining a dumpspec of the form host:d...@level/date, but it was rejected because the longer dumpspec syntax is already unambiguous. It's only the dlespecs that are ambiguous, and those are only used for amdump and amflush. > Any merit (or problems) to the idea? Or maybe the need does not > occur often enough to matter. Honestly, the problem doesn't occur often enough to try to *complicate* things by supporting both an ambiguous and unambiguous syntax -- Amanda's match expressions are pretty complex already. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
