On Thursday 10 November 2005 16:42, Jon LaBadie wrote: [...]
>Gene H, on this list, has described his approach. Realizing that >there is generally space left on the last tape, and further, amanda >does not rewind the tape when finished. Thus he adds his tar'red >up amanda tree in an extra tape file after the last amanda file. > >> Say you lose the amanda indexes and db, is there some sort of way to >> rebuild it from the tapes ? Or a way to know what files (and last >> modified date) are on which tapes ? > >That is a tool just waiting for someone to volunteer to write. Who needs to write it Jon? I simply untar/unzip the files from the end of the tape (vtape in my case), back to the directory they belong in. That doesn't really need a script does it? -- 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) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Free OpenDocument reader/writer/converter download: http://www.openoffice.org Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
