Re: Rebuilding my backup server

Gavin Henry wrote:

Disaster strikes!!!

My Red Hat 8.0 backup server hard drive has died, and I need some advice in 
rebuilding it.

I have all the backups tapes and I have backup up /etc /home /var and a few 
other things.
My question is, "How do I get all the configuration files back from the tapes without havingAmanda installed?
Any tips would be great!!!


Tip one:  stay calm.
Tip two:  Read  docs/RESTORE.

In short: As root do:
use basic unix commands to position tape like:
  mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1
use basic dd to read the 32k header of each file on tape:
  dd if=/dev/rmt/0n bs=32k count=1
And notice it contains the command you need to type to restore
that backup image:
  (position again using mt above, and cd to the correct top
   directory!)
  dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | gzip -d | gtar -xpvf -



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