>i have retry several time to restore the file it seems that i have to
>wait for few minutes after loading the tape and before restoring the
>file?
Could be. It depends on your OS, the tape driver you have and a lot
of other things.
>Is someone knows how to evaluate this waiting time?
I usually wait until an "mt rewind" works. Something like this (ksh):
while true
do
if mt -f /dev/whatever rewind > /dev/null 2>&1
then
break
fi
sleep 5
done
>how should i do if i want that amrecover load the appropriate tape
>alone?
Amrecover does not (yet) have that ability. There are a lot of issues.
For instance, what if the changer is gravity fed so it either cannot
get to the right tape, or it leaves the stacker in a state the next real
amdump run won't work?
That's just one example. There are a lot of others.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
