On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:44:50PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: > >* amrecover does not rewind the tape for you. I'm sure that there > > is a good reason for this, but I don't know what it is. You have > > to rewind the tape first, then run the command. > > The normal mode for amrecover (actually, amrestore, which it calls) > is to do a linear scan of the tape searching for the image you want. > But some tape drives (e.g. DLT) can do an "mt fsf" **much** faster than > a linear scan. So amrecover deliberately does not rewind at the start > in case you have already pre-positioned the tape. > > It would be even better if amrecover did the rewind *and* the fsf, > but nobody has gotten around to implementing that.
The latest 2.4.3 snapshot do it if you set the amrecover_do_fsf flag in your amanda.conf file. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
