On Fri, July 21, 2006 9:16 am, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > Dear all, > > say your amanda backup server itself dies, and you need to > reinstall/recreate it from scratch. > > You want the new backup server to have available the information needed to > find and restore data from tapes, i.e. the info you get when running: > amadmin config find server_name disk > or like when you restore something from a specific date, when the server > tells you which tapes you need to do the restore (while using amrecoger). > > What do you need to back up on the current backup server to enable you to > get the new server to this state? > > Will appreciate your insight. > > Joe > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Backup-server-disaster-recovery-tf1980202.html#a5433481 > Sent from the Amanda - Users forum at Nabble.com. > Hello:
Here is what we have done at our site. We re-mastered DSL (Damn Small Linux) with all the tools we need (and some we won't ever need). The bootable CD includes: ssh, netcat, etc., SCSI modules for our card, raid stuff, and most important, Amanda client. As a test, we trashed the drives on the backup server rendering it un-bootable and after the restoration a few minutes later the server was running again. What I did was, boot from the CD, fdisk the drives, create the file systems, enable mirroring, mount the partitions, and restore the last level 0 to the drive. I didn't have to mess with any incrementals because part of my test included a level 0 right before destroying the server. The only other thing I did was to copy /dev from the CD to the drive and mount /proc in order to install lilo on the hard drives. In short, if you could invest the time in creating a "Live CD" with amanda client now, it will pay good dividends later. You would need nothing more than the CD and a cup of coffee. Later, ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Ronald Vincent Vazquez Senior Unix Systems Administrator Senior Network Manager Christ Tabernacle Church Ministries http://www.ctcministries.org (301) 540-9394 Home (240) 401-9192 Cell For web hosting solutions, please visit: http://www.spherenix.com/
