On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 at 10:57am, Paul Bijnens wrote > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > Come to think of it, though, I don't know a priori how to get to the > > second image in one of those files (you could do it with counting blocks). > > Your easiest path is probably just to get amanda installed on the rebuilt > > server and use amrestore on those tape files. amrestore doesn't need > > indices. > > Second image in one file? The format the the virtual tapes is actually > quite easy. Each image on tape is one file on disk (+ some other files > to store typical tape parameters, like blocksize etc.). Even the name of > that file contains hostname and DLE. > > Or did I miss something? Nope -- I've just never used virtual tapes. ;) That's what I get for giving advice on an aspect of amanda I've never used... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
