>> Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu> wrote:
>>>  On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 at 8:12am, gil naveh wrote
>>>
>>>      I have to restore from our tape drive, but our Amanda server  that 
>>> runs on Solaris 9 has failed.
>>>      Any suggestion/ideas on how to recover files from tapes are mostly  
>>> welcome.
>>
>> http://www.amanda.org/docs/restore.html
>> man amrestore
>>
>> This is very well explained in multiple (obvious) places.
>>

gil naveh wrote:
>     Thanks for the help.
>   I am familiar with the Amrestore command.
>   But the problem I am facing is that the Amanda server which also holds 
> other  applications crushed. So I have to restore data from another server - 
> I have  Solaris 9 and and or Solaris 10 servers that I can connect to the 
> tape drive...
>   I also saved the configuration files of the amanda server.
>   
>   Is there a way to directly connect to the tape drive and use unix commands 
> to restore data from it?
>   Or any other suggestions...
>   

As was previously posted, http://www.amanda.org/docs/restore.html
Look at item 6.iii

Also look at <http://www.amanda.org/docs/using.html#restoring_without_amanda>

Frank


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