On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:32:54PM +0100, Martin Schwarz enlightened us:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:29:17PM -0500, Kevin M. Myer wrote:
> > A number of commercial backup vendors ship bootable CDs with a copy of their
> > backup application installed.  You can use these CDs to restore a system 
> > that
> > was totally toasted, due to massive disk failure, being hacked, etc.  I'm
> > wondering if anyone has ever developed something similar for AMANDA.
> 
> One of my colleagues has built a bootable rescue CD based on the Knoppix
> Gnu/Linux distribution (see www.knoppix.net if you don't know Knoppix).
> His CD includes an amanda client besides our usual tools and goodies. I
> have just recently used this CD to clone two of our machines, testing
> the disaster recovery in case of a complate hard disk failure.

Any chance we might be able to download said CD anywhere? I've not played
with Knoppix, so I don't know how easy it is to add software to the disk...

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics
Ohio University
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