Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Darin Perusich > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why does 'amrestore' always rewind the tape when I go to restore >> something? This is something I just started seeing after upgrading to >> 2.6.x, it wasn't happening with previous versions, 2.5.2. The man page >> says I can use '-f #' to fast forward the tape to a specific mark but >> when I've already done this or I want to say back it up a few marks to >> restore something else, or start another restore beginning at the >> current mark it's really a waste of time having to wait for the rewind >> and the ran back down the tape to retrieve the image. > > Amanda no longer relies on the no-rewind tape device, and always > positions the tape itself.
Being able to specify with an argument, -n or whatever, to not rewind the tape would be convenient, a time saver, and make for more efficient recovery I would think. > You may want to consider using a single amrestore invocation to get > the data you need, or using amrecover. > The amount of data I'm attempting to restore is larger then the available holding disk space so using a single invocation or amrecover isn't an option. -- Darin Perusich Unix Systems Administrator Cognigen Corporation 395 Youngs Rd. Williamsville, NY 14221 Phone: 716-633-3463 Email: [email protected]
