Matt, You could copy/rsync/whatever your amanda config directory and subdirectories, this will provide index and history.
But in worst case you can unpack the amanda dump files without that, you (optionally) decompress the dump file, use the analog of whatever utility created the dump stream (restore if dump'd, gtar if gtar, etc), and (optionally) decompress that output stream [I don't think you EVER run both SW and HW compression on any given dump file, you may use no-compression]. You don't need amanda to recovery amanda data. The usual phrase is that "amanda allows for bare metal recovery", amanda moved the data through well known utilities such as gzip, gtar, *dump and *restore (and I've personally also used (shilly) star, xtar, ufsdump, xfsdump, efsdump...) All of this should be well covered in other threads. This of course leaves out the retrieval from the S3 cloud, which I know nothing about but you must already be comfortable with. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 09:33:19AM -0500, Matt wrote: > > I would like to be able to make sure that if my backup server dies > with a catastrophic hard disk crash, I can get my backups restored from > Amazon S3. > Right now, I run my backups to Amazon S3. What additional > files would I need to copy to another server to make sure I can run > amrestore on a separate server to get my files back? > Thanks, > -- > > > Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology Management > [email protected] > c - > 301-802-3235 > o - 301-682-7901 > > 502 Fairview Avenue > Frederick, MD > 21701 > http://www.imparisystems.com > --- Brian R Cuttler [email protected] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
