On Monday 15 May 2006 08:06, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:54:33PM -0700, jeffrey d anderson wrote:
> > I've begun using the new tape spanning feature of amanda 2.4.5 and it
> > seems to work quite well.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > Periodically I pull a set of tapes from my changer to be set aside for
> > archival purposes.   In the past I have relied on `amadmin info` to tell
> > me what tapes would need to be pulled to have a full dumpcycle.  Now it
> > seems, with tape spanning, this information is not quite accurate.
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what the solution is, since this is a new condition
> > for amanda (a single DLE dump not residing on a single tape).
>
> You might check out the amandatape utility I posted to this list on Feb,
> 14. It reports correctly the information you need.  But make sure you also
> apply the patch I posted on Feb, 17.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Just to clarify my original post, I know how to get the information I need 
from the amanda logs.  I just wondered if any of the developers had given any 
thought to modifying the amadmin output to accomodate tape spanning, since it 
is currently inaccurate.

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