On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk> wrote:
>
> I've been handed a tar backup comprising 66 (yes really) LTO4 tapes.
>
> For obvious reasons I'd prefer not to have to load the tape drive
> manually for each tape. Does anyone have pointers (or even better a
> script) on automating this kind of restore?
>
>
I know that this is a Bacula list, but I think that Amanda
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_Tos has support for multi volume
tar archives.

as a slightly flippant alternative, noticing your email address, are
you not able to use a single LTO4 drive and a student as a "tape
changer" :-)

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