On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 at 4:04pm, Paul Bijnens wrote

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Restoring_files#Using_amrestore_with_split_dumps

In that explanation I used amrestore to fetch the chunks from disk to
tape, but doing it with a shell script is still doable:
- read the first 32K block of the tape chunk
- get the first line and decide if this is the a chunk you need
 (we can still keep the requirement that chunks should have been
 written monotonously, but they can be interspersed with other chunks)
- if not, just skip to the next tape chunk
- if yes, save the rest of the tape chunk to disk
- output that chunk to stdout when reading the next chunk header and
 that has a different number (because incomplete blocks are rewritten
 in the beginning of the next tape).

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University