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Re: Backup image tape spanning, a look back and a look ahead...

2005-02-23 13:32:32
Subject: Re: Backup image tape spanning, a look back and a look ahead...
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:17:41 -0500
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10:27, John Stange wrote:
><snipple>
>
>Just a note, on the expectation that people will ask after the
> status of my span/split patch.  The most recent release is a patch
> against 2.4.5, and works pretty well for me.  I've had one report
> of amrecover troubles with it, but I've been unable to reproduce
> that so far (I use the amfetchdump util that comes with the patch,
> myself).  So, it's not abandoned or anything, just idling for
> feedback.

A url to the patch would have been nice, John. :-)

>I haven't made any efforts to port it to the 2.5.0 tree, because in
> the grand scheme of things I don't really know what's up with
> 2.5.0, or for that matter whether the core team thinks my code is
> the work of a jabbering fool (and, ok, it is, but that may be
> immaterial to its utility :).

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