Amanda-Users

Re: Restoring to a different location

2003-07-09 14:00:34
Subject: Re: Restoring to a different location
From: Dave Sherohman <dsherohman AT westling DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:55:06 -0500
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:43:57PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
> Amrecover even warns
> you that you're not at the root of correct filesystem, but in this case that's
> exactly what you want.

Cool.  Sounds easy enough.  I guess I must have assumed at some point
that the warning was a hard error instead of just a warning.

> > (I doubt that it matters, but, just in case, the database directory is 
> > on a Windows machine which is backed up by a Linux client via samba.)
> 
> Uh oh. I've never had to use Amanda + Samba, so I'm not sure if any of above
> is applicable to this situation.

Nah.  It doesn't need to be restored onto the Winbox, just to someplace
that I can mail it from.  (Which, actually, disqualifies the Winbox.)

> Maybe you can smbmount (does such a term exist?)

Yep, there's an smbmount out there, as well as 'mount -t smbfs'.

Thanks, everyone!

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