Hi Alexander,

It's time to upgrade

>From the NEWS file:
   Changes in release 2.4.4p2
   * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist.
   * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file.

Jean-Louis

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 12:10:52PM +0200, Alexander Jolk wrote:
> Frank Smith wrote:
> 
> >   A third, and probably larger issue is recovery.  If your disklist 
> >   becomes
> >dynamic, how do you recover something from a DLE that is no longer in
> >your disklist?  I know it's possible with some manual editing, but is it 
> >practical
> >to try and remember what a DLE was or search through your old reports to
> >find out?
> 
> Actually, this slight inconvenience has been nagging me for a while, 
> too, and it is in fact independent from your disklist being dynamic. 
> Whenever you delete some DLE from your disklist, you can't easily 
> `amrecover' from it.  Heck, you can't even ask `amadmin <conf> find' for 
> it so that you can restore the files yourself.  As I'm sure everybody 
> here does, I just `cvs update' my disklist to an earlier date in that 
> case, amrecover, and then update back to the latest version, but this is 
> a bit more work.
> 
> Anybody have an idea of how one could possibly circumvent this problem? 
>  Fortunately, we know exactly at what time an old DLE can completely be 
> forgotten about (when its last index has been killed).
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
> 
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