>I have built a server with two identical hard drives. The plan is to have
>the first drive do all the work while the second drive is a backup. After
>backing up the first drive to tape I attempted to restore the files to the
>second drive with amrecover (unplugged the first drive to basically make it
>think it was restoring the same drive it backed up). ...
So let me make sure I understand this. The two drives are mirrors?
And when you tried the restore you did it to a drive that was already
essentially like what was dumped?
>I ran into a slight
>problem when amrecover gave me all sorts of File Already Exists messages.
No, amrecover did not say that, the restore program did (GNU tar, system
dump, whatever).
>So my question is this... is there a way to make amrecover overwrite files
>that are currently on the drive, and if not is there another way of going
>about this.
What makes you think the restore program did not overwrite them? Did you
try deliberately altering one and seeing which version was there after
the restore?
If you can find documentation that describes some option flag that should
be set on whatever restore program you're using, we can look into adding
it to what amrecover passes. Knowing what version of Amanda you're
using and what OS would also be nice.
>Joe Knapp
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
