Amanda-Users

Re: What's the link between a file/DLE and the tape name?

2003-04-09 18:56:40
Subject: Re: What's the link between a file/DLE and the tape name?
From: Jean-Louis Martineau <martinea AT IRO.UMontreal DOT CA>
To: Toralf Lund <toralf AT procaptura DOT com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 17:35:56 -0400
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:57:58PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> On 2003.04.08 17:49, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:35:32PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> >> >
> >> Well, that didn't answer my question. What I asked was: How are
> >these
> >> index entries actually connected to tape labels, which aren't
> >mentioned in
> >> the index (as far as I can tell)? Is the tape name determined
> >through
> >> tapelist search, or is additional info stored somewhere?
> >
> >
> >But it is in the log.* files.  Grep them for taper.
> Hmmm. I thought I read somewhere that the log files are no longer 
> needed (except for purely informational purposes), but perhaps I'm just 
> imagining it...

Amanda use the tapelist file to know the label and the datestamp and
read the log.<datestamp>.* files to know what's on each tape.

Jean-Louis
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