David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com wrote:
If the tape server is crashed, and I reinstall Amanda, can the NEW tape
server
recognize previous backup tapes and retrive the files?
It looks unlikely.
This is just one of the strengths of Amanda. You don't need Amanda
software to do a restore. A shell, dd, and dump or gnutar (depending
on how you created them) is enough. And access to a tapedrive (local or
remote) of course.
See docs/RESTORE to the different scenario's to follow.
On Linux you have enough with a bootable floppy, and a minimal root
filesystem, or a bootable cd. (Don't forget to run lilo when done.)
On Solaris, you need a little more expertise to boot from cd and access
a tape device (but it is possible!), and you have to make the disk
bootable afterwards (very badly documented if you ask me). You could
also just install a minimal system and then do your full restore.
I have no experience with restoring Amanda on other OS'es. (O, yes, on
Windows, you need to reinstall Windows, and then you can restore the
data files that you backed up with amanda. Restoring programs or
registry is much more complicated if useful at all; but then again,
Windows is not used as the tape server).
How solve this problem?
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