Hey, I got it working. I executed amrecover on the client machine. :)
Is it possible to restore data to a client machine but the commands will be executed on the amanda-server? Thanks. Neil writes: > Hi, > > I've just setup another freebsd as an amanda client. I have here a report, > http://restricted.dyndns.org/report.txt, which tells me that it was able > to backup the filesystem of both the client and the server. BTW, buko is > the amanda-server and gateway is the amanda-client. > > I was wondering why when I restore data of amanda-client from the tape on > the amanda-server console, the data is restored to the local harddrive of > the amanda-server and not to the amanda-client machine. > > Here are the steps which I executed on buko, the amanda server: > > 1. mt rewind > 2. sethost gateway.restricted.dyndns.org > 3. setdate 2002-09-22 > 4. setdisk /usr > 5. cd local > 6. add src > 7. extract > > Or should I execute amrecover on the client machine? It will be nice if > amrecover will be executed on the amanda-server then amanda-server will > push the data to the wire going to the amanda-client. This is similar to > the remote backup of amanda clients. > > Thanks again. > > Neil
