Bare-metal restore strategy

Just getting started with Amanda and am successfully backing uppartitions on both my amanda server and a separate client with gtar - sofar so good.

Are there "best practices" for a bare-metal restore with amanda? In thepast, if I needed to recover a machine, I'd get the tapes I needed (thatI'd produced with "dump" with the machine quiesced); boot the machinefrom CD (or tape - yes, I'm that old...); newfs the disk partitions asnecessary; and restore the partitions with "restore"

An obvious deficiency in my current ruleset, for example, is thepresumption that gtar would be available on my boot CD, which is not thecase (at least for Solaris9.)

I'm confident that I can recover one or more individual files with mycurrent backup, but I'd like to have more of a cookbook process fordisaster planning.

Any example amanda.conf's (and while I'm asking,) disaster recoverychecklists/cookbooks would be much appreciated. I'm looking to puttogether something that a third-shift operator could follow...


Thanks in advance...