Peter Farrell wrote:
Gene - I looked for those scripts at zmanda - with no luck.
Can you point to the specific link?
Peter
Did you see the following on the Amanda wiki:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page#Useful_Amanda_tools
this contains:
Gene's Amanda helper scripts - This tar ball contains amdump and amflush
helper script (bak-indices-configs) that backs up configuration and
indexes generated by the backup run to the end of the current
tape/vtape. The availability of configuration and indices would permit
bare metal recovery. Please read README file in the tar ball before
using the tools. Modify the tool for the Amanda configuration.
I did sent a private email to Gene asking whether these are the right
set of scripts as well.
Thanks
tk
-Thank you.
-Peter
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
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Cheers, Gene
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