Re: I don't think amreporter is fixed yet

On Monday 05 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT 
>net> 
wrote:
>> Now, I realize that when amdump calls it, it has knowledge of the
>> logfiles full name, but ISTR it used to be hand runnable with nothing
>> more than an
>>
>> su amanda -c "amreport Daily"
>>
>> and it would do the most recent backup.
>
>Nope -- the behavior you're observing has been the case as long as I
>can remember.
>
Gah, CRS?  Maybe it was amplot, which I haven't exercised in ages, too hard 
to decode.

>> I believe this behavior can be restored if $logdir/'log' was made into a
>> softlink that was updated when the new long named logfile was started,
>> and would then be good till the next run, in a manner similar to the use
>> of the 'data' link now used in the vtape setup.  Can this be managed for
>> the next snapshot?
>
>This gets into some of the old, crufty, hairy parts of Amanda.  That
>"log" file actually doubles as the lock that prevents other Amanda
>operations from overlapping with a running dump, so converting it to a
>symlink is not an option.

I see.  Reading between the lines then, when amdump is running, it is 
actually named 'log' and is renamed when amdump is finished?  If I'm awake 
(doubtful) I'll look while its running.

>Amreport is not meant to be run by hand, just like amtrmidx and its
>ilk, so I don't see a strong need to "fix" this to search for the
>latest completed logfile.
>
>I'm glad to hear that it produced appropriate results when run with
>the correct logfile.

Well, I figured that amdump would know how to make it work, so I did what 
amdump might have done. :)  I do manage to guess this stuff occasionally. :)

>Dustin
>


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