On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Franck GANACHAUD
<franck.ganachaud AT altran DOT com> wrote:
> The question behind is, does amanda have to restore the five tapes, concat
> the dump and tar xzf over the result?

Yes -- it does exactly that.  There's talk of how to fix that using
the Application API, but it's still a long way off.  Beyond the sheer
volume of work to implement it, I think the major challenge will be
handling and storing the metadata describing the location of a
particular tar file without using so much overhead as to render it
unusable.

Dustin

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