New question on disaster recovery with amanda

2001-02-24 Thread Ivan Gomez
I'm currently using Amanda 2.4.2, running on a FreeBSD server, with a DLT autoloader, backing up a mixture of FreeBSD and Linux machines. Amanda itself is running fine, the clients are all getting backed up and I've been able to restore some files. My question is: what happens if I were to

Will amrecover overwrite files?

2001-04-12 Thread Ivan Gomez
Not too long ago, I had some questions about recovering files, most importantly, rebuilding a crashed machine using backups. The most straightforward method appears to be to reinstall the operating system, use native utilities (tar or dump) or install amanda utilities, then restore the files.