Title: Re: Rebuilding my backup server
Dear all,
Thanks for all your help.
I upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and got all my e-mails backs.
What I did, whcih I will be submitting a patch to the RESTORE doc is:
Installed the amanda RPM and used amrestore i.e.:
amrestore /dev/nst0
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:42:00AM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
I do use knoppix heavily, maybe it's my ignorance, but how will it know what to
restore without my disklists and conf files?
You can't use amrecover until you get that stuff off the tape,
but you can use amrestore, which, by design,
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:54:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
5. dd again, this time useing a very large count, and feed that to
gzip if needed, otherwise straight to tar.
Minor improvement: instead of using a very large count, simply
don't provide a count= argument at all:
dd bs=32k
On Monday 05 July 2004 19:54, Eric Siegerman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:54:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
5. dd again, this time useing a very large count, and feed that to
gzip if needed, otherwise straight to tar.
Minor improvement: instead of using a very large count, simply
don't
Dear all,
Disaster strikes!!!
My Red Hat 8.0 backup server hard drive has died, and I need some advice in rebuilding
it.
I have all the backups tapes and I have backup up /etc /home /var and a few other
things.
My question is, How do I get all the configuration files back from the tapes
Gavin Henry wrote:
Disaster strikes!!!
My Red Hat 8.0 backup server hard drive has died, and I need some advice in rebuilding
it.
I have all the backups tapes and I have backup up /etc /home /var and a few other
things.
My question is, How do I get all the configuration files back from the tapes
On Friday 02 July 2004 03:56, Gavin Henry wrote:
Dear all,
Disaster strikes!!!
My Red Hat 8.0 backup server hard drive has died, and I need some
advice in rebuilding it.
I have all the backups tapes and I have backup up /etc /home /var
and a few other things.
My question is, How do I get all
Gavin
gab a copy of knoppix.
This a live cd version of Linux - ie you boot from it and you have a
fully working linux from cd - doesn't touch the hard drive.
You can then run mount the hd drive, setup the ethernet (if not DHCP)
and run amrestore/amrecover as needed (it's part of the knoppix
Thanks. I will print the docs and these e-mails out and start tonight. (sorry to top
posting)
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Sent: 02 July 2004 09:55
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Subject: Re: Rebuilding my backup server
On Friday 02
I do use knoppix heavily, maybe it's my ignorance, but how will it know what to
restore without my disklists and conf files?
-Original Message-
From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 July 2004 10:18
To: Gavin Henry
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Rebuilding my backup
what to
restore without my disklists and conf files?
-Original Message-
From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 July 2004 10:18
To: Gavin Henry
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Rebuilding my backup server
Gavin
gab a copy of knoppix.
This a live cd version of Linux - ie
Good idea, I think it will mount, but my cdrom is also dead :-(
I need to buy one.
-Original Message-
From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 July 2004 11:08
To: Gavin Henry
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Rebuilding my backup server
Gavin
(got coffee now and read
: Rebuilding my backup server
Gavin
(got coffee now and read the bit about *backup* server died :-)
I think you already got the advice about doing a manual restore of the
proper files.
If you've got a knoppix disk you MAY be able to get the conf files etc
off the broken disk by mounting the disk
for it,
but no joy.
-Original Message-
From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 July 2004 11:30
To: Gavin Henry
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Rebuilding my backup server
Gavin
sure its the HD then and not the IDE - or is the disk SCSI??
CD-ROM drives are cheap anyhow..
Now
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