On Friday 20 June 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Paul Yeatman
>
><pyeatman AT mamacass.ucsd DOT edu> wrote:
>> Yes, I really do have tapes that old.  Is that unusual?
>
>Not really, but it does end up being a lot of logfiles, as you indicate :)
>
>Someday (>>wistful sigh<<) we'll have a DB-backed catalog, so folks
>like you with lots of tapes won't have to worry about manually
>manipulating this stuff.  And hopefully we can be a bit more succinct
>in how the catalog is stored.
>
>Dustin

We could stand that now Dustin.  The problem as I see it though is in 
compressing it while still maintaining it in a human readable format.  This, 
for bare metal recovery operations that really do need human intervention, 
would seem to be a "prime directive".  Anything else is just frosting on the 
cake.  OTOH, on my small (about 3/4 terrabytes of drives) and virtual tape 
setup, the logs seem to hover at around 250 megs, so basically I'm complaining 
just to be doing something, and can be safely ignored. :)

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