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-New Feature
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-Amanda now has the ability to print postscript paper tape labels. The
-labels have what machines, partitions, and the level of the dump the
-tape has on it. This is achieved by adding the lbl-templ field to the
-tapetype definition. Since the labels are specific to the type of tape
-you have, that seemed to most logical place to add it.
-
-You can also specify an alternate "printer" definition to print the
-label to other than the system default printer.
-
-If you don't add this line to your tapetype definition, amanda works
-as it always has.
-
-Labels provided
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-The author has provided label templates for the following tape types.
-These are pretty generic labels, and should be easy to customize for
-other tape types. Others are encouraged to do so.
-
-exabyte 8mm tapes
-dat 4mm tapes
-DLT tapes (in progress).
-
-
-History
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-At the University of Colorado at Boulder, we used to use some dump scripts
-that printed out paper tape labels that went with the tape. When we started
-using amanda for our dumps, my boss insisted we still generate them, in
-case we weren't able to access the amanda database. The thought was that
-as long as we had an amrestore binary on a machine, we could just look at
-the label, grab the tapes, and do the restore.
-
-As a result of this we have had to hack this feature into every
-version of amanda from 2.1.1 through 2.4.0-prerelease.
-
-Our hope in adding this feature is that others find it as useful as
-we have.
-
-How it works
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-The majority of the changes are in reporter.c. Just as you might run
-the reporter by itself to see what the report will (or did) look like
-with a logfile. When the reporter prints out the report, the postscript
-label template is copied, and the successful machines, partitions, and
-dump levels are appended to this. The output either goes to
-/tmp/reporter.out.ps (when running in testing mode) or through a pipe
-to the printer (default printer, if an alternate "printer" is not
-specified).
-
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