Hmm, just found this stashed away in the bugs section of restore's manual:

"Restore can get confused when doing incremental restores from dumps that 
were made on active file systems."

Of course I make backups of active file systems. If this really is the 
problem, I can't imagine I'm the only one who ran into it. Or am I just the 
only one who's ever tested a bare metal recovery? ;)

Has anyone here documented such a recovery with Amanda using dump/restore?

Kind regards,
Hans van Zijst


On Wednesday 21 April 2004 11:31, Hans van Zijst wrote:
> I tried a bare metal recovery yesterday, but without the success I had
> hoped for. I restored the latest level 0 dump and then tried to restore
> the incremental dump over it. First step worked like a charm, but as soon
> as I restored the incremental tape, I got the error:
>
> "restore: Incremental tape too low"


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