>I am trying to use amrestore, however I can only appear to restore to the
>backup machine not to the machine that I backed up.
>...
>Surely there has to be a way that I can restore the backup directly to the
>original machine?
The usual method involves doing the work from the client (original
machine) and using rsh/ssh to reach over to the tape server machine and
run amrestore, then sending the image via the network back to the client
and piping it into your restore program.
client $ rsh tape-server mt -f /dev/whatever rewind
client $ rsh tape-server amrestore -p /dev/whatever client some-disk \
| the-client-restore-program ...
This is described in docs/RESTORE and:
http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
>Nathan
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
