Dear "Seth, Wayne (Contractor)", Once you wrote about "RE: Backup and recovery CD": SWC> I have been trying to do a complete restore on a Red Hat box for some time SWC> now. I haven't been able to figure out a way to access my SCSI tape drive SWC> from Red Hat rescue mode. Perhaps I'm missing something?
Hmm, interesting. I, myself, never had to use SCSI tape on the recoring machine. Most of the times, it's a network restore. But, IIRC, SCSI tape drives are perfectly detectable during the boot time and tar is a part of the rescue mode. SWC> Dear "Kevin M. Myer", SWC> SWC> Once you wrote about "Backup and recovery CD": SWC> KMM> failure, being hacked, etc. I'm wondering if anyone has ever SWC> KMM> developed something similar for AMANDA. I'm envisioning something SWC> KMM> like the Red Hat installer, which boots up, lets you drop into a SWC> KMM> limited shell and lets you partition disks. The AMANDA bootable CD SWC> KMM> would boot up, let you format disks and give you a limited shell, SWC> KMM> and then let you run amrestore by connecting to the tape drive (or SWC> KMM> whatever archival media you are using) of your remote backup SWC> KMM> server. SWC> KMM> SWC> KMM> Just curious if anyone has ever gone down this road and if so, how SWC> KMM> far did you get? SWC> SWC> And what's wrong with RedHat rescue mode, since you've mentioned it? :) -- Best regards, Leonid Mamtchenkov, RHCE System Administrator Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.
