I do use knoppix heavily, maybe it's my ignorance, but how will it know what to 
restore without my disklists and conf files?

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:martinh AT solid-state-logic DOT com]
Sent: 02 July 2004 10:18
To: Gavin Henry
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Rebuilding my backup server


Gavin

gab a copy of knoppix.

This a live cd version of Linux - ie you boot from it and you have a 
fully working linux from cd - doesn't touch the hard drive.

You can then run mount the hd drive, setup the ethernet (if not DHCP) 
and run amrestore/amrecover as needed (it's part of the knoppix 
distribution).


--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Gavin Henry wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> 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 having 
> Amanda installed?
> 
> Any tips would be great!!!
> 
> Gavin.
> 
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