On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:43:54PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Doing almost exactly that with nothing but a cd with dd tar & gzip on it, > was the driving force behind my writing a handfull of scripts > collectively called Genes-Amanda-Helper-0.5.
I can throw in some more too-little-too-late advice: I run a nightly crontask to back up both my Amanda configuration and my indices to another machine via rsync. I have done one bare-metal restore this way -- basically, I reinstalled the original OS, installed Amanda on it (I didn't have any trouble with version mismatches -- Amanda's tape format is fairly stable), copied the indexes back, and ran amrecover. It was a bit sketchy to be overwriting all that data on a running system (especially since the restore won't delete files that didn't exist on the backup), but worked out pretty well in the end. I think, in future, that I'd prefer to set up a CD with one of the LiveCD distros that's easily modified, add Amanda to it, and keep that around. Dustin
