On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:28:29PM +0100, Chris Lee wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea for Amanda to
> > write a footer file to tape after completing a dump providing a record
> > of the tapes needed to produce a full restore to the state the system
> > was in when this tape was written.
> > I don't use amanda in a way that this would be very useful to me, it is
> > only for home backups and I have a dumpcycle of 2 so I just need the
> > last 3 tapes and I am sure to have all I need. However I was thinking in
> > situations where longer dumpcycles and lots of DLEs are common it could
> > help with restores if you lose Amanda and her data.
> > The footer file would just be a list of the tapes from the last level 0
> > to now for each DLE.
> >
> > For example a file formatted like this, so anyone can read it without
> > Amanda's help:
> > /home/bob { //Tapes needed for this DLE
> > DailySet3 0 Thursday 17/08/2006
> > DailySet4 1 Friday 18/08/2006
> > DailySet5 2 Monday 21/08/2006
> > }
> > /home/anne { //Tapes Needed for this DLE
> > DailySet5 0 Monday 21/08/2006
> > }
> > etc.
> >
> > Restore Set { //list of all tapes needed for all DLEs
> > DailySet3 Thursday 17/08/2006
> > DailySet4 Friday 18/08/2006
> > DailySet5 Monday 21/08/2006
> > }
> >
>
> Interesting idea. A 32KB trailer file is, I believe, already added
> to the last tape used in a dump. I'm not sure I like the idea of
> adding this data, either as a last file before the trailer, or as
> part of the trailer. In a large installation it could get quite
> large and could result in an extra tape being used if the last
> DLE nearly filled the tape.
IIRC, Gene has a script to add this info.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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