Chris,
I _so_ love amanda!
thank you!
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
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> Brian Cuttler wrote:
> >Stefan, et al,
> >
> >We have decided that the standalone tape drive has failed, it
> >will not read nor write known good tapes.
> >
> >We are thinking of allocating a large NFS partition (I know, bad
> >mojo and performace but apparently/supposedly its going to be temporary)
> >and just letting the files live in the "amanda work area".
> >
> >The question then becomes one of file restores.
> >
> >How do you restore data from holding area chunks ?
> >Do I just cat them together (is there an easy way to get
> >them in order ?), if there a good method of reading them ?
> >Or can I create readable files that aren't chunked ?
>
> Amanda will restore files from dle's that are still on the holding disk
> just as easily as from tapes, only faster. Same procedure. Amanda knows
> where they are and that they haven't been flushed to tape yet. I've done
> it before just to see.
>
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