On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Darin Perusich
<Darin.Perusich AT cognigencorp DOT com> wrote:
> Why does 'amrestore' always rewind the tape when I go to restore
> something? This is something I just started seeing after upgrading to
> 2.6.x, it wasn't happening with previous versions, 2.5.2. The man page
> says I can use '-f #' to fast forward the tape to a specific mark but
> when I've already done this or I want to say back it up a few marks to
> restore something else, or start another restore beginning at the
> current mark it's really a waste of time having to wait for the rewind
> and the ran back down the tape to retrieve the image.

Amanda no longer relies on the no-rewind tape device, and always
positions the tape itself.

You may want to consider using a single amrestore invocation to get
the data you need, or using amrecover.

Dustin

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