Hi all, I am using a tape library to do my Amanda backups, but I have run into one issue - restoring my Amanda system in the case that my Amanda server goes down.
Even if I have my amanda.conf file, there is a lot of metadata I need to be able to run a successful amrestore or amrecover. My questions are (1) What files do I need exactly? (2) How do I retrieve/recover all of those files from the tapes themselves? For (1), I think I need at least * $CONFIGDIR/$config/amanda.conf * $CONFIGDIR/$config/tapelist * $PREFIX/var/amanda/chg-robot-dev-sg4 (file that holds my current tape changer's status) * infofile * indexdir but for (2) I don't know how to recover all those files. I have been able to do a little bit of the retrieval/recovery with amtape update, but that doesn't get me everything I need to use amrestore/amrecover effectively. I've looked around a lot in the forums/archives/how-tos but haven't found an answer for this question - which I assume is a fairly common issue. Apologies if I simply haven't found the documentation - in that case a link would be sufficient :) Thanks in advance! Alden
