Jon LaBadie schrieb:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:27:53PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> This is a rough idea, and has to be discussed, sure.
> 
> Top of the head things to consider:
> 
>  - may not be space to restore large DLEs

Could be caught by "testrestore_tmpdir_size" ...

>  - assuming the restore is done to the original client;
>    right now the client is only asked to supply things to
>    the server, this would be putting data to the client,
>    and substantial security considerations arise

ACK

>  - assuming the restore is done to the server;
>    the tools used to create the dump may not exist on
>    the server or be in different locations

I think this is a general issue:

An amanda-admin has to know if he wants to do these tests, and after
that he has to provide ressources (diskspace ...) and software (binaries
like tar, dump, gzip ...) on the machine he wants to perform these tests.

Same as with amanda itself:

"Wanna use holdingdisk? Gimme one ..."

Additionally every comfort brings its risks ...

Nonetheless thanks for the suggestions.

Stefan.