From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 4 21:56:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD0C37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:56:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from vienna9.his.com (vienna9.his.com [216.200.68.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE1543EB2 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:56:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (shub@[127.0.0.1]) by vienna9.his.com (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id h055uUf07774; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 00:56:30 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030105051402.GA2710@sleepy.wojomedia.com> References: <3E0DC536.8010001@slaudiovis.org> <3E0EBC49.86AD7E28@mindspring.com> <3E0FF119.7792A270@mindspring.com> <20030101124419.GA14165@sleepy.wojomedia.com> <20030105051402.GA2710@sleepy.wojomedia.com> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 23:52:27 -0600 To: Tim From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Backup Solutions Cc: Brad Knowles , chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:14 PM -0600 2003/01/04, Tim wrote: >> In what way? How does it keep a library of what tape is used for >> what content? > > RTFM at www.amanda.org. There doesn't appear to be much of anything useful there. Nor at . There's a tarball, but not much more. >> How does it keep track of how many times a particular >> tape has been used, so that you know when it should be retired? > > This has nothing to do stackers and libraries. Even if you have a > single drive, you might want this ability anyway. I don't recall off > the top of my head whether Amanda does this - it's certainly trivial > to add a small script to look at the tape usage everyday and make > this computation, if Amanda doesn't do this already. No, I submit that these things do have to do with stackers and libraries. It doesn't do you much good to use a stacker if the only support is "eject this tape and give me the next one" when you get to the end of the stack of tapes, and all the ones that have been ejected so far have fallen onto the floor. A backup system requires more intelligence regarding tape management. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message