Re: Amanda tape index script

2002-06-23 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
What would the advantages/disadvantages be of using GNU tar for all your backup needs? Is it less efficient than vendor dump utilities? Unwanted side effects? In general, it's significantly slower, and touches the read dates on all your files. On the other hand, it's possible to break up a

Amanda tape index script

2002-02-08 Thread Sacha Panasuik
Before I spend a little time on this I thought I'd ask, a quick look through the archives did not seem to yield any results. I want a little shell/perl/python, etc. script that I can use to recreate an Amanda index. I have a couple of old Amanda installations that never used indexing. So now

Re: Amanda tape index script

2002-02-08 Thread John R. Jackson
I want a little shell/perl/python, etc. script that I can use to recreate an Amanda index. ... That would be most welcome (although please use sh (not bash) or Perl to keep in the spirit of what the rest of Amanda releases). However (you knew that was coming, right? :-) ... This is a much

RE: Amanda tape index script

2002-02-08 Thread Brandon Moro
Panasuik Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Amanda tape index script I want a little shell/perl/python, etc. script that I can use to recreate an Amanda index. ... That would be most welcome (although please use sh (not bash) or Perl to keep in the spirit of what the rest of Amanda releases

Re: Amanda tape index script

2002-02-08 Thread Sacha Panasuik
Hmm. Its funny how an idea is completely lucid in my brain and yet gets mixed up between brain and keyboard. :) What I mean by index is something like this: Position: host: file system not a complete index of each file available to be restored. So that what I'm currently calling an index

Re: Amanda tape index script

2002-02-08 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
What would the advantages/disadvantages be of using GNU tar for all your backup needs? Is it less efficient than vendor dump utilities? Unwanted side effects? In general, it's significantly slower, and touches the read dates on all your files. On the other hand, it's possible to break up a

Re: Amanda tape index script

2002-02-08 Thread John R. Jackson
Hmm. Its funny how an idea is completely lucid in my brain and yet gets mixed up between brain and keyboard. :) Tell me about it :-)! What I mean by index is something like this: Position: host: file system not a complete index of each file available to be restored. ... Oh, I see. Will