On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Darin Perusich
<Darin.Perusich AT cognigencorp DOT com> wrote:
> Being able to specify with an argument, -n or whatever, to not rewind
> the tape would be convenient, a time saver, and make for more efficient
> recovery I would think.

One option may be to add a "no-rewind" property to the tape device.
I'm not sure how accurately varoius operating systems can determine
the current file, though, so this might be a dangerous property.  It's
also currently very difficult to supply properties via amrestore,
since it doesn't have a configuration file.

Dustin

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