restore amanda dumps from dead linux machine to solaris 9
2005-11-30 10:18:14
I used Amanda for years, with an old PC running Linux as a tape host
and server. I backed up two or three other machines, (a cobalt server
and a Mac OS X server, using it). It died! I don't have another Linux
machine - I put together an old (1994 state of the art) Sparc 10 and
managed to get a tape drive hooked up. I installed Amanda using the
packaged version at blastwave.org (I'd have some issues getting gcc
to work on my SparcStation).
I was having the usual set up issues with files, permissions, exclude
lists, tar versions, when I thought it would be good to go over how I
had it set up previously. While I have no problem dumping the files
on the solaris machine; I can't seem to figure out what is in them.
Except for a few text characters on the tape label I'm stumped. the
dd command works as expected. I don't remember the order, etc and I
don't have the output from any of the jobs which would have told me
what partitions from what machines where on which files on the tape.
I have two versions of tar ( one from blastwave which is GNU tar
1.15.1) and one from the install of Solaris. I don't know which
version I was using for the tapes. Also, I don't have a machine that
can run a Linux Dump or Restore as Solaris has ufsrestore.
So is there a way for me to figure out what is on the tape and
restore the Linux partition where I previously had Amanda installed?
--
Joshua Kuperman
josh.kuperman AT gmail DOT com
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