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> Btw.: talking about xfsdump: Is there a tool/addon that writes a tape
> catalog, so I can locate data without a tape beeing inserted ? The
> contents of /var/xfsdump seems more some kind of meta-data.Would be
> really nice to be able to browe some kind of database to see on which
> tapes what files are located.

Amanda (http://www.amanda.org/) is a nice tool keeping a catalogue. You
can browse it with an FTP-like interface no matter if you used
dump/xfsdump/ufsdump/backup/tar for backup. The index is stored in
gzipped plain text. If you're really lost in space, you can even zgrep
for your files.