Non-interactive multivolume restore

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Feb 4 13:51:38 UTC 2019


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In message <alpine.BSF.2.20.1902041440510.35838 at puchar.net>, Wojciech Puchar writes:
>> files you want to restore, as opposed to additional dump volumes.
>>
>> I thought perhaps 'cat dumpvols... | restore -x -f -', but that
>> gets confused at the beginning of the second volume.
>>
>> What's the right way to do this?                          -- George
>>
>>
>look at -P option.

I was just about to say:  -P is there exactly for tape libraries etc.

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