Hi Jon,

It's my very first time to setup and used Amanda as an alternative
backup solution here in our company. Since my server doesn't have any
tape drive installed I configured Amanda to run backups and stored them
in the holding disk. To verify my backups, I tried restoring one of them
by following the instruction from /usr/share/doc/packages/amanda/RESTORE
but I wasn't able to find the right commands to do it. Almost all the
instructions there require restoring from a tape. But as I have said, I
am trying to restore directly from my holding disk. I'm really out of
idea to do it that's why I am seeking for your help or from any other
Amanda expert if you could help me find the right combination of
commands to restore my backups.

Thanks and Kind regards,
Mar

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:jon AT jgcomp DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:38 PM
To: Mariel Luciano (ffnngp)
Subject: Re: inquiry on restoring amanda dump from the holding disk

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:06:06PM +0800, Mariel Luciano wrote:
> Hi to All,
> 
> I was able to setup Amanda on three Linux systems. One acts as the
> server and the other two the clients. I was successfully run amdump
> generating two files w/ .0 extension to my holding disk. My server
> doesn't have any tape drive and I really find it very difficult to
> restore my backups. I looked at the Amanda and other website and it
> seems that every instructions I found requires a tape drive to
restore.
> Anyone can help me on this? Coz "nobody cares if you can backup, only
if
> you can restore".


I'm having trouble driving my car.  Can you help me?

Probably not because you have no idea what kind of trouble I'm having.
I have not told you what I did or tried and what happend when I did.

Similarly, you have not told us enough to help.

-- 
Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
 JG Computing
 4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
 Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)