Yes, I think for the sake of simplicity I'm going to do just that - rsync the necessary files to another machine. Thanks for the help!
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:18 AM, McGraw, Robert P <rmcg...@purdue.edu>wrote: > Have you considered doing an rsync of your amanda home directory and > /var/amanda directories to another disk on another machine. **** > > ** ** > > You could set this up to run after you back is complete.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto: > owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] *On Behalf Of *Alden Timme > *Sent:* Monday, August 22, 2011 2:59 PM > *To:* amanda-users@amanda.org > *Subject:* Re: Recovering Metadata from Tape?**** > > ** ** > > Great! Thanks for the responses - sorry I didn't see the archived > conversations.**** > > ** ** > > Alden**** > > 2011/8/22 gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com>**** > > On Monday, August 22, 2011 02:22:01 PM Alden Timme did opine:**** > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am using a tape library to do my Amanda backups, but I have run into > > one issue - restoring my Amanda system in the case that my Amanda > > server goes down. > > > > Even if I have my amanda.conf file, there is a lot of metadata I need to > > be able to run a successful amrestore or amrecover. My questions are > > > > (1) What files do I need exactly? > > > > (2) How do I retrieve/recover all of those files from the tapes > > themselves? > > > > For (1), I think I need at least > > * $CONFIGDIR/$config/amanda.conf > > * $CONFIGDIR/$config/tapelist > > * $PREFIX/var/amanda/chg-robot-dev-sg4 (file that holds my current tape > > changer's status) > > * infofile > > * indexdir > > > > but for (2) I don't know how to recover all those files. > > > > I have been able to do a little bit of the retrieval/recovery with > > amtape update, but that doesn't get me everything I need to use > > amrestore/amrecover effectively. > > > > I've looked around a lot in the forums/archives/how-tos but haven't > > found an answer for this question - which I assume is a fairly common > > issue. Apologies if I simply haven't found the documentation - in that > > case a link would be sufficient :) > > > > Thanks in advance! > > Alden**** > > This is one of those 'bare metal' questions, and there have been 2 or 3 > offerings in that regard, I rather like my own solution to that problem. > It is a wrapper script that depends on your having a tape descriptor with a > 500 meg and up, cushion so that amanda will never fill the tape, but will > leave a bit of room for the wrapper scripts files. > > The wrapper script adds to the end of the tape, a tarball of the current > configuration tree, and a tarball of the database tree. > > It looks something like this on a vtape: > [root@coyote gene]# ls -l /amandatapes/Dailys/slot20 > total 27352256 > -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 32768 Aug 22 00:50 00000.Dailys-20 > -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 25698360714 Aug 22 01:05 00001.coyote._home.0 > [... long dle list of files] > -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 856391680 Aug 22 01:16 > 00040.coyote._usr_share.0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 102400 Aug 22 02:53 configuration.tar > -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 193904640 Aug 22 02:53 indices.tar > > The version available isn't exactly the latest, but a good scripter can > adjust to suit. Google for GenesAmandaHelper-0.6. > > I probably need to repack it and put in on my web page. I will freely > admit its a poor bash hack, but I have been using it here for several years > now. > > I have assumed that disaster recovery is a new install and that you've > enough tools available in that install to recover from the tape directly, > dd, tar and gzip cover that. > > Assume then that you use these tools to recover the indices.tar and place > its contents where they now reside, as step one. > Step 2 would be to recover, again using dd and tar, the configuration.tar > file and put it where it resided before the crash. > Step 3 then is to recover the user tree where amanda was built and > installed from, in my case the /home tree since I build and install amanda > as the user amanda. You will need to adduser, and groupadd, the user who > ran amanda, unpack these files to tmp and do as root, a chown -R on those > two trees in /tmp before the wholesale copying is done. > > In my case I would cd to /home/amanda/amanda-version and do a "make > install". At that point, mkdir your holding disk area and chown it so > amanda can use it. You should then have an amanda install that passes an > amcheck $configname, as that amanda user, or get errors telling you what is > missing yet. Once that's done, amrecover should let you recover the rest > of your data. I have done that several times here & there has always been > something I forget since at my years I really don't remember some of the > details. But this really does help me... > > Cheers, gene > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Being a BALD HERO is almost as FESTIVE as a TATTOOED KNOCKWURST.**** > > ** ** >
