On Fri, July 21, 2006 9:16 am, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
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> Dear all,
>
> say your amanda backup server itself dies, and you need to
> reinstall/recreate it from scratch.
>
> You want the new backup server to have available the information needed to
> find and restore data from tapes, i.e. the info you get when running:
> amadmin config find server_name disk
> or like when you restore something from a specific date, when the server
> tells you which tapes you need to do the restore (while using amrecoger).
>
> What do you need to back up on the current backup server to enable you to
> get the new server to this state?
>
> Will appreciate your insight.
>
> Joe
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Hello:
Here is what we have done at our site. We re-mastered DSL (Damn Small
Linux) with all the tools we need (and some we won't ever need). The
bootable CD includes: ssh, netcat, etc., SCSI modules for our card, raid
stuff, and most important, Amanda client.
As a test, we trashed the drives on the backup server rendering it
un-bootable and after the restoration a few minutes later the server was
running again. What I did was, boot from the CD, fdisk the drives, create
the file systems, enable mirroring, mount the partitions, and restore the
last level 0 to the drive. I didn't have to mess with any incrementals
because part of my test included a level 0 right before destroying the
server. The only other thing I did was to copy /dev from the CD to the
drive and mount /proc in order to install lilo on the hard drives.
In short, if you could invest the time in creating a "Live CD" with amanda
client now, it will pay good dividends later. You would need nothing more
than the CD and a cup of coffee.
Later,
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