On Wed, 19 May 2004 at 11:44pm, Chris Miller wrote > "amadmin find" shows a record of the location on tape (record number) > where each dump record exists. Given this information, why does amrecover > start at the beginning of the tape during a restore and read each record > sequentially on the tape until it finds the correct record? I can > significantly reduce restore times by suspending amrecover and using "mt > fsf <n>" to pre-position the tape one or two records before the record it > wants. I gather the code is doing a pattern match for hostname, diskname, > and date. Why not use this information to get the record number and > position the tape appropriately?
If you're using at least 2.4.4, put the following in your amanda.conf: amrecover_do_fsf yes and it'll do exactly what you want. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
