On Monday 18 October 2004 16:14, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Jukka Salmi wrote: >> I'm using the chg-disk tape changer. When restoring files using >> amrecover, after adding some files and issuing the extract >> command, amrecover tells me what tapes are needed, and asks me to >> "Load tape <label> now". I load the needed tape using amtape, and >> tell amrecover to continue. After a while I'm promted to load >> another tape, and so on... >> >> Is it possible to automate the process of loading the needed >> tapes? That's not very important, but maybe "nice to have". > >Before the chg-disk tape changer was written, I used the chg-multi >changer with the file-driver. It's a little more complicated >to configure, but the advantage is that it finds and load > automatically the vtapes. >What not yet automatically works is typing the "Y" to continue >to the next tape.
Humm, I played with that just a couple of weeks ago by shrinking my tapetype so it used 3 virtual tapes. That part (using multiple vtapes) worked just fine, Paul. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.