On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:54:55AM -0500, Guy Dallaire wrote:
> 2005/11/14, Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 03:53:57PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger enlightened
> > us:
> > > Maybe we can define a new wish on the AMANDA-wishlist:
> > >
> > > A new functionality, that adds a new special DLE, containing all the
> > > metadata. amdump could dump the metadata AFTER all the regular DLEs ...
> > >
> > > Ideas and thoughts welcome, as always.
> > >
> >
> > Seems logical to me. That way you know if you need to do a bare metal
> > recovery, you just zip to the last file on the tape and get your indexes
> > off, and can proceed from there.
> 
> 
> Totally agree

Might not be the last file on the tape.  Suppose you collected things
on the holding disk, possibly several days of dumps, before taping.

If the metadata were to hold the DLE -> tape mappings, the dump of
the metadata couldn't begin until after all other DLEs were taped.
Does that raise any issues?

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