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Lists of on-media parts are sometimes passed around in a " | Lists of on-media parts are sometimes passed around in a "tapespec", implemented in <tt>common-src/tapelist.c</tt> and <tt>perl/Amanda/Util.{swg,pod}</tt>. Older code referred to this as a tapelist, which can be confused with the tapelist file (which, naturally enough, is implemented in <tt>server-src/tapefile.c</tt>). | ||
A | A tapespec is a semicolon-separated list of volumes, where each volume is specified as a label, a colon, and a comma-separated list of file numbers on that volume. For example: | ||
Conf-001:1 | Conf-001:1 | ||
Revision as of 03:56, 23 February 2010
Lists of on-media parts are sometimes passed around in a "tapespec", implemented in common-src/tapelist.c and perl/Amanda/Util.{swg,pod}. Older code referred to this as a tapelist, which can be confused with the tapelist file (which, naturally enough, is implemented in server-src/tapefile.c).
A tapespec is a semicolon-separated list of volumes, where each volume is specified as a label, a colon, and a comma-separated list of file numbers on that volume. For example:
Conf-001:1
or
Conf-001:3,4,5,9,11;Conf-002:1,2,3
All of these metacharacters are quoted with a backslash if they appear in the label.
Sometimes the specification is abused by putting things that aren't labels in it:
/A/p/hold\:ing/20100205181319/euclid._A_p_etc.1:0