On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 12:29:07AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2017-01-04 um 18:21 schrieb Ochressandro Rettinger: > > Are there any instructions available for how to do a full bare metal > > restore onto a physical server? I've got a process down for > > restoring VMs, but that's easy, because I can just make a new virtual > > hard drive and then move the whole thing onto my virtual hosts. I've > > got a process set up to record information about the underlying file > > systems and hard drive layout, but I have no idea how to take a blank > > machine and restore onto it. > > > > Is the general idea that you'd do an OS install, and an Amanda client > > install, and then run amrecover from / ? > > aside from status quo: > > why not make a wish and a feature request? > > Shouldn't it be manageable to make amanda dump/store all the up2date > meta-info *after* the daily backups (to the defined $storage)? > > Amanda "knows" everything after dumping and writing the backups to > (v)tapes and whatever. Why not enable it(/her ?) to optionally add some > kind of footer to all of this which contains stuff like indexes etc? > > pls let me know if I miss something > pls let's discuss that > When this has come up in the past, there was some reservation about situations where insufficient (v)tape remained on the last used tape. I think an option could be to save it to the holding disk. It isn't needed after amdump is finished (unless dumps are intentionally being left on the HD in order to fill a tape), and an optional amount could be reserved for the metadata. Possibly to be flushed on the next amdump run.
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