On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:45:15PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> 
> I believe you need 2.4.3 or later to specify a "diskname" and 
> "diskdevice".  In 2.4.2 the syntax of a DLE would allow only a
> "diskname".
> 
> Because the diskname should be unique in a disklist file, the
> workaround in that time was to add mulitple "/." to the end of
> a diskname, like this:
> 
> some.host.org  /my/diskname        dumptype-with-excludes
> some.host.org  /my/diskname/.      dumptype-with-other-excludes
> some.host.org  /my/diskname/./.    dumptype-with-yet-other-excludes
> 
> That is, is you don't want/can't upgrade the client to a recent
> amanda version.


I would not have remembered that on my own, but as soon as you said it I did :)

An aside, I've always wondered about the selection of column names there,
"diskname" and "diskdevice".  Very /sbin/dump and whole-file-system centric.
As an alternative, might "DLEtag" and "DataLocation" be more descriptive?
And the pairing of host and DLEtag be known as the DLEname?

Ahh, nevermind, it is just semantics.

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