So assuming I know what tape has a level 0 of my root file system, what might the commands look like to retstore that file system. I'm running Solaris and as I said use tar for the backups. I don't need specifics as I know a lot of people on the list are running Linux but the commands in general would be great!
Thanks Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > 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 -- Scott Sanders Systems Administrator Concepts Direct, Inc. 2950 Colorful Ave. Longmont, CO 80504
