At 12:22 PM 12/5/2002 -0500, Mark Stosberg, you wrote:

Hello,

I'm curious how some you have dealt with the catch-22 of backing up
Amanda's configuration files. Ideally during the restore process Amanda
is available with all it's configuration files intact. However, if the
Amanda server needs to be restored, you can't restore them in the usual
Amanda way, because the config files to do so would be on a backup
tape...

How of others of you worked around this?

  -mark

http://mark.stosberg.com/

<http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html>

AMANDA: To restore:
    position tape at start of file and run:
        dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 [ | zcat ] | restore -...f
    or run: amrestore -p <tape> [host [partition]] | restore -...f

#       Server:/partition                       date      lev  size[Kb]
0       daily09:                20021204    -         -
1       fee.utexas.edu:/tmp             20021204    1       590
2       fi.utexas.edu:/boot             20021204    1        20
3       fo.utexas.edu.edu:/home         20021204    1        92
4       fum.utexas.edu:/                20021204    1      1027

Oscar