On 9/9/10 11:55 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
I bet most of you have some small nitpick with Amanda that you've
never felt warranted an email. Well, now's your chance! I'd like to
put some polish on Amanda, and it's hard for me to see the areas that
need burnishing, since I work on Amanda all day, every day.
- typo in a manpage?
- command-line usage oddity?
- confusing use of terminology?
- something else?
Start up a new thread on the mailing list, or email me privately if
you'd prefer, to let me know what's bugging you. Bonus points for
also supplying a patch, but that's not at all required!
Note that I do reserve the right to say, "actually, that's
complicated" (and explain why).
Dustin
One learns in a relationship not to nitpick. But, then, since we're talking about Amanda the
beautiful open source software program and not a beautiful woman one is in a relationship with, I
suppose it's alright.
So, . . .
I have configurations (and I know others do as well) in which I want certain days to go to holding
disk only and later get flushed to tape along with the regular backups that go to tape. For example,
run a regular backup at the end of every weekday, but run incrementals only on weekends and just
keep them on the holding disk. That saves tapes and stretches how many weeks I have covered in the
routine rotation.
To do that, I use the command line options to redefine the tape library and tape drive so that they
don't go to my Sony AIT5 Library. The result is that the Amanda email report on those days starts
out with
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape found].
I know to expect those, although sometimes I'm caught off guard for one reason or another, and it
may take a moment for my brain to kick in and say, "it's alright." However, when I'm on vacation,
and someone else is watching over things, they are more likely to get confused and worried.
If there were a way to directly say, "fall back, don't tape," or "--disable-taper," then that would
avoid the "expected" error message.
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