On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:03:16AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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.

just semantics, but now I know what is meant. So thanks everyone for
discussing this.
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