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

2005-02-24 17:40:17
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: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:33:18 -0500
On Thursday 24 February 2005 09:08, John Stange wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> sez:
>> 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. :-)
>
>Can I get a "duh" from the crowd?
>
Duh...

>http://www.cs.umd.edu/~building/span_split_2.4.5-current.patch.gz
>
>That's against the 2.4.5b release available on the official AMANDA
> page, from October.  I can whip one up that applies cleanly to the
> more recent 2.4.5b snapshots, if so desired.

If its not too much trouble John, I'd appreciate it.

>> >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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