On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Alan Brown wrote:
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> 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
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
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 a
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
