Non-interactive multivolume restore

[George Mitchell]

On 2/4/19 8:51 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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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.
> 

Thanks to all who pointed this out to me!  I think I will propose a
documentation patch to give an example of this usage, as I had to go
poking into the code to see exactly how this works.  But first I'm
verifying that my new understanding is correct.            -- George

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