Title: Re: Rebuilding my backup server
Dear all,
Thanks for all your help.
I upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and got all my e-mails backs.
What I did, whcih I will be submitting a patch to the RESTORE doc is:
Installed the amanda RPM and used amrestore i.e.:
amrestore /dev/nst0
Does anyone know of any step by step how-to's that deal with using the
exclude file option with amanda on tar based backups?
thanks
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:13:44AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
OK, it turnes out that the entry in .amandahosts now (since the upgrade)
requires the FQDN for tony-lx, i.e. tony-lx.magpieway.net. It now works.
I've just had a similar adventure here. I've already solved it;
this post is for
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,
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:54:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
5. dd again, this time useing a very large count, and feed that to
gzip if needed, otherwise straight to tar.
Minor improvement: instead of using a very large count, simply
don't provide a count= argument at all:
dd bs=32k
On Monday 05 July 2004 19:54, Eric Siegerman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:54:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
5. dd again, this time useing a very large count, and feed that to
gzip if needed, otherwise straight to tar.
Minor improvement: instead of using a very large count, simply
don't
