On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 at 9:13am, Scott Sanders wrote > I've plowed through the install and setup of amanda, thanks in no small > part to the folks on this list, and have successfully restored various > file systems with no problem. But the one task that is always the most > daughnting (sp?) is restoring root from a total crash. For a client > machine I'm assuming I'll need to reload the client OS and amanda but > I'm not sure where to go from there.
Client OS -- yes. amanda -- not necessarily. You can get the data off amanda tapes using mt, dd, and tar, whch is rather handy. > The next big question is how do you recover from the amanda server > crash? Each night as part of my backup script I tar up all the amanda config and history info and put it in /home/amanda (backed up) as well as copy it to a NFS mounted RAID (also backed up). That way I have all the history info available in multiple places (and in multiple tape sets) should the worst happen. Should the server die, it's simply a matter of reinstalling the OS, restoring that tarball, and I'm back up and running. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
