On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Chris Hoogendyk <[email protected]> wrote: > I've also tried just reading the Amanda tapes directly. It works even if it > is a little tedious. In my case the sequence of commands involves > ufsrestore, but that too is documented on the tape itself in the first > record.
I've been thinking about an "amrecatalog" utility for a while now. It would be similar to amrestore, but would output a useable trace log file giving the location and header metadata for all files on the tape. This would be helpful during a bare-metal recovery with highly split DLEs, since you could use amfetchdump to reassemble the files once amrecatalog had generated logs for the tape. This would be a Perl script much like amrestore. It could also be implemented as an option to amrestore (maybe 'amrestore --recatalog'), which is already in Perl. There's probably still a window to get this into 3.1 if anyone wants to give it a try! Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
