Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
JL, On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 05:20:05PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:30:19PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: One note: we already have diskname and device in a DLE, where device is what's actually backed up, and diskname is the name used to refer to it. So, for

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2010 21:09, schrieb Dustin J. Mitchell: As you can see, complicated. But a consistent approach to storing the DLE and path of a particular user object over time would be a useful first step. Do you have any thoughts on how that might be implemented? Remember my script generating

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 07:37:52PM -0600, John Hein wrote: Chris Lee wrote at 22:23 +0100 on Sep 13, 2010: The way I see it the DLE is for the admin to make sub divisions in the backup to make backing up easier to manage. The software should store the file object with path and hostname,

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:21:47 -0400 Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 07:37:52PM -0600, John Hein wrote: Chris Lee wrote at 22:23 +0100 on Sep 13, 2010: The way I see it the DLE is for the admin to make sub divisions in the backup to make backing up easier

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-14 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
These are some exciting ideas, so far! I'd love to see some of this fleshed out in code, even if that's not Amanda code -- an example of a catalog with fake dump and recover operations that demonstrates how all of this would fit together. With that in place, we can settle on a particular

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:32:55AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:21:47 -0400 Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 07:37:52PM -0600, John Hein wrote: Chris Lee wrote at 22:23 +0100 on Sep 13, 2010: The way I see it the DLE is for the

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:30:19PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: One note: we already have diskname and device in a DLE, where device is what's actually backed up, and diskname is the name used to refer to it. So, for example, a disklist foohost /home could be renamed to foohost

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:36 PM, John Hein jh...@symmetricom.com wrote: This may not be considered a nitpick but more of a feature request. If I move a disk or rename a host or move the host to a different domain, it'd be nice to be able to rename the disklist entry (DLE) and have history

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org 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

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
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... On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 02:09:16PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:36 PM, John Hein

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 02:56:28PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org 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

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-13 Thread Chris Lee
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:36 PM, John Hein jh...@symmetricom.com wrote: This may not be considered a nitpick but more of a feature request. If I move a disk or rename a host or move the host to a different domain, it'd be nice to be able to rename the disklist

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-13 Thread John Hein
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 14:09 -0500 on Sep 13, 2010: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:36 PM, John Hein jh...@symmetricom.com wrote: This may not be considered a nitpick but more of a feature request. If I move a disk or rename a host or move the host to a different domain, it'd be nice

vDLE (was: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE)

2010-09-13 Thread John Hein
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 14:56 -0500 on Sep 13, 2010: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org 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

[not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-12 Thread John Hein
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 10:55 -0500 on Sep 9, 2010: I bet most of you have some small nitpick with Amanda that you've never felt warranted an email. Well, now's your chance! I'd like to put some polish on Amanda, and it's hard for me to see the areas that need burnishing, since I