On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:10:30PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> After restoring a workstation with several drives from a total of 5
> different tapes, and each filesystem being on at least two of them, it
> occurred to me that there *has* to be a better way to restore multiple
> filesystems.
> 
> Ideally, I'd like to see a system where a user could browse an entire host's
> contents with amrecover or a close derivative, select as many files as
> desired, then:
> 
>  1) amrecover would collate a list of every tape needed to recover every
>     selected file,
>  2) amrecover would prompt for each one in turn, as it currently does, with
>     the exception that it would extract files for every relevant filesystem
>     stored on that tape, in order
> 
> 
> Does this seem like a workable possibility?
> 
> P.S.  If it already exists and I missed it, I am fully prepared to dine on
> my cap.

I'm sure the amanda developers would echo the sentiment I saw on another list:

       Patches gratefully accepted.


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