On Wed February 26 2003 15:06, Seth, Wayne (Contractor) wrote: >Leonid, > >I have been trying to do a complete restore on a Red Hat box for > some time now. I haven't been able to figure out a way to access > my SCSI tape drive from Red Hat rescue mode. Perhaps I'm missing > something? > >-----Original Message----- From: Leonid Mamchenkov > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, > February 26, 2003 11:50 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Backup and recovery CD > > >Dear "Kevin M. Myer", > >Once you wrote about "Backup and recovery CD": >KMM> failure, being hacked, etc. I'm wondering if anyone has ever >KMM> developed something similar for AMANDA. I'm envisioning > something KMM> like the Red Hat installer, which boots up, lets > you drop into a KMM> limited shell and lets you partition disks. > The AMANDA bootable CD KMM> would boot up, let you format disks > and give you a limited shell, KMM> and then let you run amrestore > by connecting to the tape drive (or KMM> whatever archival media > you are using) of your remote backup KMM> server. >KMM> >KMM> Just curious if anyone has ever gone down this road and if > so, how KMM> far did you get? > >And what's wrong with RedHat rescue mode, since you've mentioned > it? :)
I can report one problem with that, if he is booting from the updated kernel that up2date might have installed. The updated kernel did *not* come accompanied by an updated initrd, and the updated kernel is useless for such booting because theres no matching version numbered initrd he can load his scsi drivers from. I know, I let it install it on me, and it over-wrote my grub.conf rendering the rest of my custom kernels inactive till I fixed that by giving grub a custom command line that did point to a valid for my system kernel, and used that to restore my grub.conf. I have not allowed up2date to touch my kernel installs since that fiasco. A rather heated message to RH at the time was not replied to. There are many things up2date is good for, but putzing with your kernel install isn't one of them. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
