On 10/01/17 11:55 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> * Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]> [20170110 09:31]:
>> The labelstr setting changed in 3.4
>> $ man amanda.conf
>> labelstr string | MATCH-AUTOLABEL
>> Default: MATCH-AUTOLABEL. The tape label constraint regular
>> expression. All tape labels generated (see amlabel(8)) and
>> used by
>> this configuration must match the regular expression. All
>> autolabel
>> variable can be used. The keywork MATCH-AUTOLABEL use the
>> autolabel
>> template as expression.
>>
>> If multiple configurations are run from the same tape server
>> host,
>> it is helpful to set their labels to different strings (for
>> example, "DAILY[0-9][0-9]*" vs. "ARCHIVE[0-9][0-9]*") to avoid
>> overwriting each other's tapes.
>>
>> If the match_autolabel key is set and TRUE, then the autolabel string is
>> used for the template.
>> if the match_autolabel key is not set or is FALSE, then the labelstr
>> template is used.
>>
>> Jean-Louis
>
> Thanks Jean-Louis for the explanation.
>
> I still have a question: it seems as peer the man page that
> MATCH-AUTOLABEL is a keyword but if I set it to false I get an
> error when loading the config file:
>
> '/opt/amanda/etc/amanda/top/amanda.conf', line 22: configuration keyword
> expected
>
> Line 22 is:
> match-autolabel false
match-autolabel is not a keyword, it is a field in the labelstr perl hash.
You have nothing to change in the configuration file if you use a
labelstr template.
Jean-Louis
>
> ??
> thanks,
> jf
>
>> On 09/01/17 04:37 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Revamping a few scripts that I use with amanda-3.3.x in prevision of
>>> transitioning to 3.4.1 and one is using a call to
>>> Amanda::Config::getconf($CNF_LABELSTR).
>>>
>>> With Amanda-3.3.5 I get a simple string:
>>>
>>> perl code:
>>> my $labelStr = Amanda::Config::getconf($CNF_LABELSTR);
>>> print "DEBUG: Got tape label to match => $labelStr\n";
>>>
>>> output:
>>> DEBUG: Got tape label to match => ^neo400-1_charm_[0-9][0-9]*
>>>
>>> but with 3.4.1 I get a ref to a hash and iterating through its keys I
>>> get:
>>>
>>> perl code: Drobo_COMP
>>> my $labelStr = Amanda::Config::getconf($CNF_LABELSTR);
>>> print "DEBUG: Got tape label to match => $labelStr\n";
>>> foreach my $key ( keys %$labelStr) {
>>> print "DEBUG: labelStr: $key $labelStr->{$key}\n";
>>> }
>>>
>>> output:
>>> DEBUG: Got tape label to match => HASH(0x26b3888)
>>> DEBUG: labelStr: match_autolabel
>>> DEBUG: labelStr: template ^NEO-T48-B[0-9][0-9]*
>>>
>>> Where is this documented?
>>> I looked at $amperldir/Amanda/Config.pm and I see nothing obvious...
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> jf
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