Hi, On Wednesday 25 June 2008 14:36:50 Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello Eric, > > For those of you who don't know what vtape is -- it is a virtual tape > driver that Eric wrote that simulates a real tape drive but using disk -- > it is no small programming accomplishment!
Thanks :) > Nice work! I just "converted" my test regression case so that it is > vtape/tape neutral. It works like a charm. One can switch back and forth > between vtape and real tape by simply changing: > > USE_VTAPE=yes > to > USE_VTAPE=no > > or vise-versa and then running: > > make sed > > I ran my test tests/two-vol-manual-tape both with a real tape drive and > using vtape with the above procedure and diffed the output. The only > differences were due to dates and timing (i.e. vtape runs much faster) -- > everything else in the debug output listing was identical. > > I'm looking forward to finishing up version 2.4.1 using vtape (*much* > faster) vtape isn't present on 2.4 branch... > so you can move all the @xxx@ variables to the environment, and > then there will be no need to even run the "make sed" script to switch > between real tape and virtual tape. We will have some problems with bacula configuration file, how do you want to handle that ? We can do some sort of "make sed" during regress test initialization for example. Bye ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
