>Hmm. Its funny how an idea is completely lucid in my brain and yet gets >mixed up between brain and keyboard. :)
Tell me about it :-)! >What I mean by index is something like this: > >Position: host: file system > >not a complete index of each file available to be restored. ... Oh, I see. Will amtoc do what you want? It only uses the log.YYYYMMDD.NN files. Here's a sample: # Server:/partition date level size[Kb] 0 B00100/acmaint: 20011230 - - 1 pythia.cc.purdue.edu:/export/home/b 20011230 1 63 2 catbert.cc.purdue.edu:/export/home/a 20011230 0 31 3 ledger.cue.purdue.edu:/var/adm/acmlog 20011230 1 3615 ... Or, if they are old tapes that you don't have the log.YYYYMMDD.NN files for any more and so can't run amtoc against: mt rewind amrestore $TAPE no-such-host This scans the tape looking for a client named "no-such-host". As it wanders along it reports everything else it sees. Not as nicely parseable as your idea, but that's what sed is for :-). >Sacha Panasuik John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
