Non-interactive multivolume restore

[Diane Bruce]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 09:50:43PM -0500, George Mitchell wrote:
> Historically, the restore program assumed that the volumes of a
> multivolume dump were on separate physical reels of tape, and that a
> human would have to load each tape to complete the restore.  But now
> I have multivolume dumps that are simply separate online files from
> which I would like to restore without having to type each name in
> one at a time.  However, you can give only one -f option on the
> command line, and additional file names are assumed to specify the
> 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
> 

Would xargs work for this?



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