Re: Application_API: MAX-LEVEL

On 09/11/17 14:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> On 11/09/17 11:37 AM, Chapman Flack wrote:
>> What should an application report for the 'support' MAX-LEVEL item?
> The support subcommand is not called with host and disk argument.
> It must report the maximum level the application support, in your case 99.
> There is a hard limit of 399.

Ok.

> -1 -1 means the application can't compute the estimate, so an estimate
> server can be used.
> The Amanda::App_Script::ERROR should be used only when all estimate fail.
> There is no way do what you want.
> I committed a patch to allow it , the application must output "-2 -2"

Let me see if I understand now: -2 -2 means "this level isn't possible
because there is no prior level - 1", -1 -1 means "this level should be
possible but something went wrong", and ::ERROR means "something went
so wrong I couldn't do any level at all"?

I wonder if there was really a need for adding -2 -2 ... backups have
been working fine on my system just returning -1 -1 for the levels that
can't be computed. The planner picks a level that didn't come back -1 -1
and everything works.

-Chap