On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Alan Brown a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk wrote:
I've been handed a tar backup comprising 66 (yes really) LTO4 tapes.
For obvious reasons I'd prefer not to have to load the tape drive
manually for each tape. Does anyone have pointers (or even better a
script) on
I've been handed a tar backup comprising 66 (yes really) LTO4 tapes.
For obvious reasons I'd prefer not to have to load the tape drive
manually for each tape. Does anyone have pointers (or even better a
script) on automating this kind of restore?
On Jul 25, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Alan Brown wrote:
I've been handed a tar backup comprising 66 (yes really) LTO4 tapes.
For obvious reasons I'd prefer not to have to load the tape drive
manually for each tape. Does anyone have pointers (or even better a
script) on automating this kind of
Am 25.07.2011 18:37, schrieb Alan Brown:
For obvious reasons I'd prefer not to have to load the tape drive
manually for each tape.
GNU Tar does support multiple-volume archives:
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Using-Multiple-Tapes.html#SEC162
In particular, take a look at
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 05:37:46PM +0100, Alan Brown wrote:
I've been handed a tar backup comprising 66 (yes really) LTO4 tapes.
For obvious reasons I'd prefer not to have to load the tape drive
manually for each tape. Does anyone have pointers (or even better a
script) on automating this
