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

Re: New question on disaster recovery with amanda

2001-02-24 Thread John R. Jackson
>... what if I need to completely restore a machine from >backups? Looking at the amanda utilities, they're too big for a boot >floppy. One of the truly beautiful things about Amanda is that you don't need it to do a restore. The images are self documenting and may be recovered with only stan

Re: New question on disaster recovery with amanda

2001-02-26 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:14:38PM -0500) > The list of tapes needed may be maintained several ways: > * You could set up lbl-templ in amanda.conf to (e.g.) 3hole.ps and > save the paper copies Amanda will generate after every run. The exa,dat,LTO .ps f