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-Chapter 11. Printing of Labels
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-Stefan G. Weichinger
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-XML-conversion;Updates
-AMANDA Core Team
-<sgw@amanda.org>
-Table of Contents
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- The_New_Feature
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- Labels_provided
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- History
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- How_it_works
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- The 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.
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- 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.
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-* Exabyte 8mm tapes
-* DDS 4mm tapes
-* DLT tapes (in progress).
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- 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.
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- 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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-Note
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-Refer to http://www.amanda.org/docs/labelprinting.html for the current version
-of this document.
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