On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Peter Farrell wrote: >Gene - I looked for those scripts at zmanda - with no luck. >Can you point to the specific link? > >-Thank you. >-Peter > Interesting, and you are correct. They were uploaded to them with the understanding that they would be available to all.
Let me see if I can convince kmail to hit you direct and I'll attach a copy. >On 28/02/07, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >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 did this for quite a while, and TBT, its one more way of spreading >> that one single point of failure a little thinner. But my FILE: >> backups to a separate disk have worked so well (many times more >> dependable than my tape setup ever was) so I've given myself that >> hours worth of cpu time back. I may regret that at some point, but so >> far I've had no reason to fear an instant failure of both drives. I >> will get hopefully, some advance warning of impending doom if my /var >> goes read-only as its on another partition of that same 200GB drive >> the vtapes are on. >> >> Those scripts I mentioned are available on the zmanda site if anyone >> is curious. >> >> >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. >> >> That was also my experience the one time I had to do a bare metal. >> That was 4 or 5 years ago, and I've not lost a hard drive since, knock >> on wood. >> >> >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. >> >> Because of the relative ease with which it could be kept up to date, I >> think I'd opt for a 2GB compact flash, the adaptor to make your IDE >> controller think its a drive is only about 3 bucks. I'm running my >> router/firewall (dd-wrt) on one of 256 megs, no other drive in the >> box. >> >> >Dustin >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >> message by Gene Heskett are: >> Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
