On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 16:42, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >Gene H, on this list, has described his approach.  Realizing that
> >there is generally space left on the last tape, and further, amanda
> >does not rewind the tape when finished.  Thus he adds his tar'red
> >up amanda tree in an extra tape file after the last amanda file.
> >
> >> Say you lose the amanda indexes and db, is there some sort of way to
> >> rebuild it from the tapes ? Or a way to know what files (and last
> >> modified date) are on which tapes ?
> >
> >That is a tool just waiting for someone to volunteer to write.
> 
> Who needs to write it Jon?  I simply untar/unzip the files from the end
> of the tape (vtape in my case), back to the directory they belong in. 

Because you didn't really loose them, since you stored them at the end of your
tape?

> That doesn't really need a script does it?

He meant a script to read the complete tapes and reconstruct the database from
that information.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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