Dear "Seth, Wayne (Contractor)",

Once you wrote about "RE: Backup and recovery CD":
SWC> I have been trying to do a complete restore on a Red Hat box for some time
SWC> now.  I haven't been able to figure out a way to access my SCSI tape drive
SWC> from Red Hat rescue mode.  Perhaps I'm missing something? 

Hmm, interesting.  I, myself, never had to use SCSI tape on the recoring
machine.  Most of the times, it's a network restore.  But, IIRC, SCSI
tape drives are perfectly detectable during the boot time and tar is a
part of the rescue mode.

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