Hi Jon, It's my very first time to setup and used Amanda as an alternative backup solution here in our company. Since my server doesn't have any tape drive installed I configured Amanda to run backups and stored them in the holding disk. To verify my backups, I tried restoring one of them by following the instruction from /usr/share/doc/packages/amanda/RESTORE but I wasn't able to find the right commands to do it. Almost all the instructions there require restoring from a tape. But as I have said, I am trying to restore directly from my holding disk. I'm really out of idea to do it that's why I am seeking for your help or from any other Amanda expert if you could help me find the right combination of commands to restore my backups.
Thanks and Kind regards, Mar -----Original Message----- From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:38 PM To: Mariel Luciano (ffnngp) Subject: Re: inquiry on restoring amanda dump from the holding disk On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:06:06PM +0800, Mariel Luciano wrote: > Hi to All, > > I was able to setup Amanda on three Linux systems. One acts as the > server and the other two the clients. I was successfully run amdump > generating two files w/ .0 extension to my holding disk. My server > doesn't have any tape drive and I really find it very difficult to > restore my backups. I looked at the Amanda and other website and it > seems that every instructions I found requires a tape drive to restore. > Anyone can help me on this? Coz "nobody cares if you can backup, only if > you can restore". I'm having trouble driving my car. Can you help me? Probably not because you have no idea what kind of trouble I'm having. I have not told you what I did or tried and what happend when I did. Similarly, you have not told us enough to help. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
