On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:44:50PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >* amrecover does not rewind the tape for you.  I'm sure that there
> >  is a good reason for this, but I don't know what it is.  You have
> >  to rewind the tape first, then run the command.
> 
> The normal mode for amrecover (actually, amrestore, which it calls)
> is to do a linear scan of the tape searching for the image you want.
> But some tape drives (e.g. DLT) can do an "mt fsf" **much** faster than
> a linear scan.  So amrecover deliberately does not rewind at the start
> in case you have already pre-positioned the tape.
> 
> It would be even better if amrecover did the rewind *and* the fsf,
> but nobody has gotten around to implementing that.

The latest 2.4.3 snapshot do it if you set the amrecover_do_fsf flag
in your amanda.conf file.

Jean-Louis
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