[adr-devel] Your remarks on the concept.

[Bernd Harmsen]

Hello Stefan,

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:16:55PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> I looked through the Concept-file today and was self-confident enough
> to correct some slight errors you seem to have looked over.

Thank you for correcting this.


> 3.3.1.1. assumes everyone is doing amverify regularly. Maybe you mean
> the emails from amdump?
> Note: I see you tell about that assumption in A.3 ...

I mean the mails from amverify. Yes, I have thought that everyone who
runs amdump runs amverify after this. But in this section I only want
to point the reader who has no backup of the amanda database to another
posibility to find his tapes and archives.

I know three ways to do this:

1) Amanda Database (prefered)
2) Amverify E-Mails
3) Generate very simple index from tape.

Maybe I should mention 2 & 3 only in the appendix.



> 3.3.1.2. Why should someone use dump? AFAIK there is no particular
> benefit in using dump, so it would reduce the complexity of restoring
> data to use GNU-tar for all your DLEs.

I am not shure if and under which conditions it is better to use tar or
dump. 

At the moment we use dump on all Linux-Backup-Clients without problems.
And I don't like to change that without a strong matter. Maybe I should
think over this and research the advantages and disadvantages of tar
and dump. But at the moment there is less time for that.

Until "Amanda" decides to drop support for dump I like to support it,
too.



> 3.3.1.4.
> Your second note: You are right to skip the first entry.
> Lookup ./docs/RESTORE in the Amanda-tgz, chapter 6d):
> > Skip the first record, which is just the tape header, by using the
> > appropriate tape command.

I am not shure, if this is correct. In "RESTORE" the author skips the
first archive with the tape header and then trys each following archive
with dd. There is now relationship to the archiv-number in the
amanda-database.

If I look in my amanda database the are archiv-numbers starting by 1
for each tape.  So I think there is no substraction or addition needded
if the archive number comes out of the amanda database.

Sorry, I have not locked deeper in this before.



> 3.3.1.4.c
> ? Amstellen ? Seems you left some notes in there ...

Correct, this is work in progress, but I should make a lyx note out of
this.


> 3.3.2.10.
> >From here on there are some labels with english/german mixed titles

Sorry, its late in the night. I do not find them in 3.3.2.10


> 3.3.2.10.c
> Same topic as in 3.3.1.4.  ...
> 
> 3.4.2.
> Same topic as in 3.3.1.2.  ...

Ok, this in work in progress.


I will do the mentioned changes after I have compiled a new version of
LyX. I lose the lyx-notes If I open your lyx 1.3 file with my lyx 1.1
and I don't want to lose your corrections.


Thank four your suggestions
Bernd