Re: amvault/amvault.8 documentation updates

On 21/09/17 05:37 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> The attached edits to amvault.pl 
> <http://amvault.pl> 
> and amvault.8.xml attempt to update the
> amvault "usage" screen and man page to better match each other as well
> as the actual behavior of the program. (again, this is starting from
> Amanda 3.4.5)
>
>
>
> (Jean-Louis,)
>
> Is there a particular reason that --src-labelstr isn't sufficient as a
> filter by itself?
It was designed to specify a regex, the same labelstr as in the config file.

It is sufficient if an exact label is specified, but is kind of dangerous.
If you have a run that write dumps to 2 labels (label-1 and label-2) and 
one of the dump is split on the two tapes.

running

  * amvault --src-labelstr label-1
  * amvault --src-labelstr label-2

Will not vault the dump that is split on both tapes.

amvault is designed to copy selected dumps, not to copy an entire tapes.

>
> In my testing I can vault all dumps on one particular source volume by 
> saying
> something like "amvault ... --src-labelstr TESTBACKUP-20 \*" .... but
> I'm wondering if it would be possible for --src-labelstr to be added to
> the "at least one of these filters is required" list?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Nathan
>
>
>
>
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