"John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I have to do a complete restore of a host that has many partitions
> >(~60). My dump cycle is 20 days, so if I use amrecover, which only
> >allows one partition per extraction, I have to change tapes a lot of
> >times.
> >
> >What I would like to do is going through all the tapes in the last
> >dump cycle one by one and extract the relevant partitions from each
> >tape, so I only have to change tapes 20 times.
> >
> >Does anyone have a good solution for this problem?
>
> First, are you planning on reloading the needed images to disk (e.g.
> your holding disk) and then restoring the host from there? Or do you
> want to actually do the restore directly from tape?
This is going to be directly from tape.
[ snipped long and brilliant answer ]
This is great, down to 13 tapes, thanks a lot.
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jens Bech Madsen
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Jens Bech Madsen
The Stibo Group, Denmark
