On Thursday 10 November 2005 16:42, Jon LaBadie wrote:
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>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.
That doesn't really need a script does it?
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