On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:42:00AM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: > I do use knoppix heavily, maybe it's my ignorance, but how will it know what to > restore without my disklists and conf files?
You can't use amrecover until you get that stuff off the tape, but you can use amrestore, which, by design, doesn't need any of Amanda's on-disk data; all it needs is the backup media. To start, you can use amrestore to get a coarse-grained overview of the tape, using something like: mt rewind amrestore /dev/nst0 nonexistent-host-name Amrestore (N.B., not amrecover) will happily trundle through the tape looking for DLEs for "nonexistent-host-name", and in the process of not finding any, it'll print a nice list of the files on the tape. A lot less painful than all those dd's... -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau