Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-16 Thread Alexander Jolk
Frank Smith wrote: A third, and probably larger issue is recovery. If your disklist becomes dynamic, how do you recover something from a DLE that is no longer in your disklist? I know it's possible with some manual editing, but is it practical to try and remember what a DLE was or search

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-16 Thread Alexander Jolk
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I don't want to sound lazy, but isn't this solved pretty easily by some kind of shell-script that you run regularly? If this script finds some new directory inside that given dle-root-directory it appends a new DLE to your disklist. I have a perl script that does

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Alexander, It's time to upgrade From the NEWS file: Changes in release 2.4.4p2 * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist. * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file. Jean-Louis On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 12:10:52PM +0200, Alexander Jolk wrote: Frank

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-16 Thread Alexander Jolk
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi Alexander, It's time to upgrade From the NEWS file: Changes in release 2.4.4p2 * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist. * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file. Wow, that one had passed under my radar. Great! Alex --

Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread Chris Lee
It would be great if we could tell amanda that all subdirectories of a specific root were to be treated as individual disk list entries. i.e. balance all sub directories across backups. This would help in cases like my home system where I have a few user directories. These are mostly static in

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread Michael Loftis
--On May 13, 2005 6:20:33 PM +0100 Chris Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be great if we could tell amanda that all subdirectories of a specific root were to be treated as individual disk list entries. i.e. balance all sub directories across backups. This would help in cases like my home

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread jeffrey d anderson
On Friday 13 May 2005 10:20 am, Chris Lee wrote: It would be great if we could tell amanda that all subdirectories of a specific root were to be treated as individual disk list entries. i.e. balance all sub directories across backups. This would help in cases like my home system where I have

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Chris, on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 19:20 you wrote to amanda-users: CL It would be great if we could tell amanda that all subdirectories of a CL specific root were to be treated as individual disk list entries. i.e. CL balance all sub directories across backups. I don't want to sound lazy,

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:36:27PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Chris, on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 19:20 you wrote to amanda-users: CL It would be great if we could tell amanda that all subdirectories of a CL specific root were to be treated as individual disk list entries. i.e.

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, May 13, 2005 21:36:27 +0200 Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Chris, on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 19:20 you wrote to amanda-users: CL It would be great if we could tell amanda that all subdirectories of a CL specific root were to be treated as individual disk

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread Michael Loftis
--On May 13, 2005 3:21:29 PM -0500 Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just have a DLE for the top level, and that directory contains an exclude file containing the subdirs that I back up as separate DLEs. That way I won't miss any new subdirs that are created. This won't work as well for

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, May 13, 2005 14:54:33 -0600 Michael Loftis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On May 13, 2005 3:21:29 PM -0500 Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just have a DLE for the top level, and that directory contains an exclude file containing the subdirs that I back up as separate

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Jon, on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 21:58 you wrote to amanda-users: PAW (according to Jon LaBadie this means Stefan G. Weichinger writes : Patches Always Welcome) ;-) JL I thought we decide on APAW (Applicable PAW). APAWACCVST. Applicable Patches Against Current CVS Tree. ;-)

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:36:27PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Chris, on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 19:20 you wrote to amanda-users: CL It would be great if we could tell amanda that all subdirectories of a CL specific root were to be treated as individual disk list entries. i.e. CL

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Frank, on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 22:21 you wrote to amanda-users: Find all the dirs under dle-root-dir, compare them to a list of already existing DLEs, if something is new, add DLE to disklist. FS The problem I see with this approach is that you need to run the script FS on the client