> I have full backups of a Linux machine on tape done with Amanda > over the network. Now I would like to basically wipe the entire > machine and restore entire system from backups which are on > another machine. Amanda is configured to use 'dump'.
you can't wipe your running system and restore it in a single run > If I just restore the files to another directory for copying them > over later, then how am I supposed to replace the files which are > in use by the machine? dump works by filesystems, you'll have to place you files on another partition/block device/hard drive in between > Is there a way to restore, for example, the entire /usr > partition 'with one go'? you boot off a floppy/cdrom, mkfs your filesystem usually mounted to /usr, mount it, cd to it and "restore rf <dump file>" or "export TAPE=/dev/nst0; restore r" or something like this > Am I a fool? by doing backups - real man's stuff is mirrored on ftp servers all over the world ;-)
