A number of commercial backup vendors ship bootable CDs with a copy of their backup application installed. You can use these CDs to restore a system that was totally toasted, due to massive disk failure, being hacked, etc. I'm wondering if anyone has ever developed something similar for AMANDA. I'm envisioning something like the Red Hat installer, which boots up, lets you drop into a limited shell and lets you partition disks. The AMANDA bootable CD would boot up, let you format disks and give you a limited shell, and then let you run amrestore by connecting to the tape drive (or whatever archival media you are using) of your remote backup server.
Just curious if anyone has ever gone down this road and if so, how far did you get? Thanks, Kevin -- Kevin M. Myer Systems Administrator Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (717) 560-6140
