On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Darin Perusich <darin.perus...@cognigencorp.com> wrote: > Why does 'amrestore' always rewind the tape when I go to restore > something? This is something I just started seeing after upgrading to > 2.6.x, it wasn't happening with previous versions, 2.5.2. The man page > says I can use '-f #' to fast forward the tape to a specific mark but > when I've already done this or I want to say back it up a few marks to > restore something else, or start another restore beginning at the > current mark it's really a waste of time having to wait for the rewind > and the ran back down the tape to retrieve the image.
Amanda no longer relies on the no-rewind tape device, and always positions the tape itself. You may want to consider using a single amrestore invocation to get the data you need, or using amrecover. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com