>    Date: 18 Sep 2002 14:29:58 -0800
>    From: Anthony Valentine <avalentine AT sbsalaska DOT com>
> 
> Question:  Can Amanda be setup so that it writes a copy of 
> it's indexes
> to the beginning of each tape?

>    Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:10:04 +0100
>    From: Niall O Broin <niall AT magicgoeshere DOT com>
> Subject: Re: Can Amanda put its index on a tape?
> 
> 
> That'd be a nice feature, but then a lot of things about time 
> travel might
> be nice :-) I don't think it can be done in the general case, 
> because taping
> will usually have started before the indices would be updated.

Am I right in remembering that amanda has the ability not to start the
backup of a particular machine until a given time? Could this mechanism
be usurped to force a particular backup to be taped last? Another
possibility would be to add to the priority mechanism. I guess this is
really one for the hackers, so I hope they read this list too. It sounds
fairly simple - but so does time travel :-)


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