On Friday 23 January 2004 03:38, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: >> When you want to extract tapes from a tape WITHOUT using amanda >> how do you know which file a particular archive is located? > >I print out a postscript label, generated by amreport, and store it >in the tapecasette. Some people use "amtoc" to generated a listing. >And there is the (slower) command "amrestore ConFig NoSuchHost", >or even a loop in shell using only dd and mt. Scanning the >headers does not take as long as reading the complete tape. > I forgot to comment on this in my previous message.
I did do that, for a short amount of time only. I had some tape failures that I felt were related to the paper dust debris getting into the tape and stopped. One could tape it to the outside of the cassette carrier I suppose, but that eventually gets tape gooey all over. If I were that good a record keeper, I'd use 3hole.ps and keep a journal in a 3 ring binder. But I'm not a great record keeper... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
