On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:32:54PM +0100, Martin Schwarz enlightened us: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:29:17PM -0500, Kevin M. Myer wrote: > > A number of commercial backup vendors ship bootable CDs with a copy of their > > backup application installed. You can use these CDs to restore a system that > > was totally toasted, due to massive disk failure, being hacked, etc. I'm > > wondering if anyone has ever developed something similar for AMANDA. > > One of my colleagues has built a bootable rescue CD based on the Knoppix > Gnu/Linux distribution (see www.knoppix.net if you don't know Knoppix). > His CD includes an amanda client besides our usual tools and goodies. I > have just recently used this CD to clone two of our machines, testing > the disaster recovery in case of a complate hard disk failure.
Any chance we might be able to download said CD anywhere? I've not played with Knoppix, so I don't know how easy it is to add software to the disk... Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Ohio University (740) 593-1263
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