I am in charge of seeting up a new backup server for the County of Montrose,
CO. My boss has asked me to put together a system that will allow us to
buffer a restore job (say, grabbing a file from tape) before sending the file
back to its proper place on a server.
The reason he feels this is
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:32:07AM -0600, Darren Landrum wrote:
[restoring to a temporary location]
Is Amanda capable of this kind of operation?
Yes.
And your boss is right :-) When restoring individual files (as
opposed to disaster-recovering an entire partition), doing it
this way is much
I have never bothered setting up or using the restore component of Amanda (amrestore).
I dd the backup from the tape, uncompress if necessary and pipe to restore or tar -x.
I put the restored file in my (root or amanda) directory and could then compare it to
the existing file if I wanted to. In
--On Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:32:07 -0600 Darren Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am in charge of seeting up a new backup server for the County of Montrose,
CO. My boss has asked me to put together a system that will allow us to
buffer a restore job (say, grabbing a file from tape)
Thank you to all for you answers. I think at this point, it's all over but the
actual implementation.
I'm using Suse 9.1 with a Quantum SDLT320, in case you're all curious.
Regards,
Darren Landrum
Montrose County IT
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 12:24 pm, Frank Smith wrote:
--On Wednesday,
amrecover and amrestore can be used to recover or restore arbitrary parts
of the backup tape( s ) to arbitrary places...assuming the machine you're
running them from has the appropriate tools available (IE gnutar and/or the
particular 'dump' programs needed) -- so the generic answer is 'yes' --
