>I may need to do a complete restore, this means no index files, I
>guess.
You would not be using the index files for a complete restore anyway.
They are only meant for amrecover, and amrecover is really only for
individual items, not whole file systems.
If you are recovering a client (as compared to the tape server itself),
you shouldn't have any trouble. All the information you need is on the
tape server.
To protect the tape server itself, the important thing to know is what
tapes have what images, and what dates were they written. There are
several ways to protect this information:
* rdist the Amanda configuration information to another machine that
has Amanda installed so you can run things like "amadmin" on it
(this is what I do).
* Run amtoc after each amdump and amflush and save those reports
someplace other than the tape server.
* Keep copies of the Amanda E-mail reports on another machine or in
paper form. They are not as handy to work with, but could be used
if needed.
* Set up lbl-templ in amanda.conf to print "labels" after every
run. One of the supplied formates is 3hole.ps which generates output
suitable for storing in a 3 ring binder.
* In the worst case, since you only have five tapes, you can catalogue
them after you've got the machine up enough to run things again:
amrestore -p /dev/whatever no-such-host > /dev/null
>Could someone point me in the right direction for how to do this?
See:
docs/RESTORE
http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
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