On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:41:27PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> The problem with deciding about the errors is more difficult when
> you look closer.
>
> - Some people leave the tape drive empty on purpose, and when enough
> dumps are collected in the holdingdisk, they insert the tape, and all
> the dumps get autoflushed to tape.
I'm doing this also, (on vtapes, via cron).
> - Some people have laptops in their disklist, and "results missing"
> is normal for those PC's. However, results missing on your production
> file server is very important.
So it might be a good idea to make "results missing" (or, maybe other
errors, too?) behavior depandant on the host.
> - Many people have "file changed as we read it" warnings, and most of
> these are harmless. But sometimes NOT.
> That's why I extended my list of reg.expressions to suppress those
> warnings only for particular files only.
I always wondered how to distinguish the harmful from the harmles.
You dare to share your wisdom?
> So, implementing this inside Amanda for general use is difficult.
> Implementing a filter in perl for your own use should be easy enough.
I disagree with this. Asking the (end)user to implement their filters in
perl is somewhat arrogant, I think... Instead, there should be an interface
to specify the severity of a specific problem. Soemthing like
/host.regex.do.main/ /results missing/ IGNORE
m!host.com:/var/mail/.*! /file changed/ IGNORE
Forcing people to implement those things on their own invites people to
introduce errors without even knowing about the fact that they have an
error.
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