Author: "Ralph at yahoogroups" <yahoogroups AT spampot DOT com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:43:56 +0200 (CEST)
We've just had a disk crash on our Amanda 2.4.3 server on RedHat 7.3 Linux. I had it configured to do tapeless backups onto a different fileserver (via chg-multi (I think) and the file tapetype. Howe
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:54:44 -0400 (EDT)
docs/RESTORE will still cover this I believe. Just treat the "tape" files as if they were tapes. 'dd if=tapefile of=header.out bs=32k count=1' will read the header of the first image in 'tapefile'...
Author: Simon Frettloeh <sifr AT aifb.uni-karlsruhe DOT de>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:08:49 +0200
Hi Ralph! You could have a look at http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-24.html Ciao, Simon -- Simon Frettloeh Institute AIFB (Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Methods) University of Ka
Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:57:02 +0200
We've just had a disk crash on our Amanda 2.4.3 server on RedHat 7.3 Linux. I had it configured to do tapeless backups onto a different fileserver (via chg-multi (I think) and the file tapetype. How
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:47:12 -0400 (EDT)
Nope -- I've just never used virtual tapes. ;) That's what I get for giving advice on an aspect of amanda I've never used... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke Universit
Author: "Ralph at yahoogroups" <yahoogroups AT spampot DOT com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:40:46 +0200 (CEST)
The advice was good. Thanks very much. (Although I admit I scratched my head a for a couple of minutes before I realised that the .0 file created by "amrestore" was more suitable for "tar" than the "