On Monday 18 October 2004 16:14, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>Jukka Salmi wrote:
>> I'm using the chg-disk tape changer. When restoring files using
>> amrecover, after adding some files and issuing the extract
>> command, amrecover tells me what tapes are needed, and asks me to
>> "Load tape <label> now". I load the needed tape using amtape, and
>> tell amrecover to continue. After a while I'm promted to load
>> another tape, and so on...
>>
>> Is it possible to automate the process of loading the needed
>> tapes? That's not very important, but maybe "nice to have".
>
>Before the chg-disk tape changer was written, I used the chg-multi
>changer with the file-driver.  It's a little more complicated
>to configure, but the advantage is that it finds and load
> automatically the vtapes.
>What not yet automatically works is typing the "Y" to continue
>to the next tape.

Humm, I played with that just a couple of weeks ago by shrinking my 
tapetype so it used 3 virtual tapes.  That part (using multiple 
vtapes) worked just fine, Paul.

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