Amanda-Users

[Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 16:19:32
Subject: [Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?
From: rory_f <amanda-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:14:47 -0500

Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:52 PM, rory_f <amanda-forum < at > 
> backupcentral.com> wrote:
> 
> > how hard would it be to migrate our naming convention over to match our 
> > labels ? is there any way of doing it?
> > 
> 
> Well, the Amanda label is written on each tape, at the beginning -- so
> you'd need to do some tape-drive trickery to rewrite that
> (single-block) file without overwriting the following data.  I'm not
> sure tape drives can do that.
> 
> The remaining adjustments in Amanda's metadata would be tricky, but
> not impossible (basically a global search-and-replace over all of
> Amanda's metadata would do the trick).
> 
> Dustin
> 
> -- 
> Storage Software Engineer
> http://www.zmanda.com


Yeah
A lot more hassle than it is worth.

Which ever way i figure out is best i'll be sure to post here and let you guys 
know.. ;)

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