On 13 Mar 2002 at 9:31am, Brad Tilley wrote > This is what I think is happening (someone please correct me if I'm > wrong). Amanda writes data images to tape using 32KB blocks. The first > block of data in the image is an Amanda header that has manual recovery > directions (that's why dd requires a skip=1). So, each time one image is > restored, dd and tar hit an IRG and stop. The subsequent dd command > moves on to the next Amanda image, etc.
Yep, that's exactly how the images are structured. As for the stopping, that's just how tape drives work (if I'm not mistaken). Each dd reads one tape "file", and stops when it hits EOF. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
