On Thursday 31 October 2019 00:13:14 Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings all;
>
> I find I need to recover two directory trees in /home/pi, from a pi3,
> preferably from the last full backup available from that pi3.
>
> I haven't installed ANY amanda on the pi4 because in previous debian
> 10 installs, the pi4 crashed about 2 seconds after the server touched
> it. That was an am64 install, where the install is now a raspbian 10.1
> in armhf flavor.
>
> If I can recover those 2 directories, I'll then have the latest config
> to run this big lathe, which had some improvements I'll need
> eventually.
>
> So, here on the server, what sequence to I run, to pull those 2 dirs
> out to scratch pad disk, were I can then move them back into position
> on the rpi4.  Its been several yonks since I last used amrecover. 
> Once I get that stuff restored, I'll try installing the repos
> amanda-common an client to see if it crashes on an armhf install.
> The repo list's:
> pi@rpi4:~ $ sudo apt list amanda amanda-*
> Listing... Done
> amanda-client/stable 1:3.5.1-2+b3 armhf
> amanda-common/stable 1:3.5.1-2+b3 armhf
> amanda-server/stable 1:3.5.1-2+b3 armhf
> And AIR this is a patched 3.5.1 here on the server.
>
> The first command I'll need is a listing of all the backup of "picnc"
> that do exist in the 60 day history I have here.
>
By carefully following the amrecover man page I managed to get that done.
Now I need to run linuxcnc and find out what won't work on the new 
install.  This will be fun, NOT.
>
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett



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