On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 at 6:12pm, Jose A Medina wrote > Im still an Amanda Rookie so please bear with my ignorange in this matter > Our internal amanda server had its main HDD just die.
Bummer. > Is it possible to configure Amanda from scratch on a seperate server and > use the failed servers tapes to restore data? Absolutely. > If so what would be the steps if I had a new amanda server ready to go > with a basic config. (ie: edit tapelist? or use a utility? ) There are two possible scenarios here: 1) You were backing up the config and log directories In this case, just restore these onto the new server and you'll be back up and running with full historical info. If these backups are on your amanda tapes, you can use amrestore or mt/dd/restore/tar to get them. Personally, part of my nightly backup scripts tar up these directories and put them in /home/amanda (backed up on one config) and /data/amanda (on our RAID, backed up by another config). 2) You weren't backing his info up Here i gets a bit less pleasant. You can still get all the info off your backup tapes using amrestore (which reads the header at the beginning of each tape file) or mt, dd, and restore/tar. But you won't be able to use amrecover and our dumpcycle will likely be thrown off. In this case, I'd probably think about a new cycle of tapes -- at least until I got one full of all my disklist entries -- before I started overwriting the old ones. Good luck. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University