On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 at 10:57am, Paul Bijnens wrote

> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> > Come to think of it, though, I don't know a priori how to get to the 
> > second image in one of those files (you could do it with counting blocks).  
> > Your easiest path is probably just to get amanda installed on the rebuilt 
> > server and use amrestore on those tape files.  amrestore doesn't need 
> > indices.
> 
> Second image in one file?  The format the the virtual tapes is actually
> quite easy.  Each image on tape is one file on disk (+ some other files
> to store typical tape parameters, like blocksize etc.). Even the name of
> that file contains hostname and DLE.
> 
> Or did I miss something?

Nope -- I've just never used virtual tapes.  ;)  That's what I get for 
giving advice on an aspect of amanda I've never used...

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University