I guess i am comparing it to some other back up programs i have used such as 
arcserve.   Arcserve keeps track of what tape is in which slot (inventory).  If 
it is not in the magazine then it will ask for you to load it.  At that time 
you can do like you are saying, by putting the tapes that it needs into a 
magazine and load it.  If it is in the magazine it should call the slot that 
that tape is in and not go searching for it by going through all the tapes.


Ben
Quoting Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>:

> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:43:56PM -0500, Ben Simpson wrote:
> > 
> > I got my amrestore and amrecovers mixed up when i typed this email.
> > It is asking for a specific tape. When i does I just open another 
> > session and tell the changer to find the tape.
> > 
> 
> As Jean-Louis said, even amrecover does not use the changer -- "yet".
> 
> It certainly seems as if it could, but several times I used amrecover
> the desired tapes were not in the loaded magazine (I rotate 4) and
> would have not been found anyway.  It would have wasted time for me
> to have the changer cycle through looking for it.  Another time,
> 2 or 3 tapes were needed and were in different magazines.
> 
> I actually like the current behavior where it tells me I will need
> tape x, y, and z.  Then I load them into an empty magazine and
> go from there.
> 
> Each to their own needs :)
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