Dear "Kevin M. Myer",

Once you wrote about "Backup and recovery CD":
KMM> failure, being hacked, etc.  I'm wondering if anyone has ever
KMM> developed something similar for AMANDA.  I'm envisioning something
KMM> like the Red Hat installer, which boots up, lets you drop into a
KMM> limited shell and lets you partition disks.  The AMANDA bootable CD
KMM> would boot up, let you format disks and give you a limited shell,
KMM> and then let you run amrestore by connecting to the tape drive (or
KMM> whatever archival media you are using) of your remote backup
KMM> server.
KMM> 
KMM> Just curious if anyone has ever gone down this road and if so, how
KMM> far did you get?

And what's wrong with RedHat rescue mode, since you've mentioned it? :)

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Best regards,
  Leonid Mamtchenkov, RHCE
  System Administrator
  Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.