[flexbackup-help] multiple volumes

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Hi
I tried a to backup to multiple volumes.
The backup part seemed to work okay (flexbackup -set test -volumes 2) even
though was a bit slow.

But when trying to restore it did not work.
I could not find any special arguments I tried to restore 1 file that was on the
sn2 tape.
It first had to read the whole tape (which is quite along time if you know you
need something of the 2nd tape.) and than it gave this error:

0 CONTROL_FILE/flexbackup.volume_header_info -- okay
afio: "-" [offset 3739m+884k+0]: Fatal error:
afio: "-": Premature input EOF
|------------------------------------------------------------
At block 957408.

I guess there has to bee some extra option passed to mbuffer or something?

I tried the same command on the sn2 tape:

flexbackup -extract

afio: "-" [offset 6]: Fatal error:
afio: "-": Unrecognizable archive

Any idea how to restore it tape by tape?

I know it is experimental but the restore does not seem to work at all. The
backup part ask nicely for the next tape. But I wonder what is writen on the
sn2 tape and how to get it back.

I prefer to beable to just get a few files from it but a full restore is also
fine.
My biggest problem is that I only have a dds 2 tape streamer and I really want
to backup my whole system which probably need 10 tapes if I use compression.
tar cannot handle it and I could make a script that calculates the file size
but that is the uncompressed filesize.

help :-)

Regards

Hans de Groot