User:RobD

restore of a protected disk

I'm using GNU-TAR backup types here, amanda server/client 2.4.5-2 on FC4/FC5

• find out which backups/tapes you'll need to recover a server (as amanda user)

(amanda@backupserver:~)$ amadmin ambackup info server.domain.tld

• find which tapes are in which slots (as amanda user)

(amanda@backupserver:~)$ amtape  ambackup show

• load a tape (as amanda user)

(amanda@backupserver:~)$ amtape ambackup slot 2

• restore the data from that tape to current directory (as root) (restores everything on that tape), piped via GTAR

(root@backupserver:~)# mkdir working
(root@backupserver:~)# cd working
(root@backupserver:working)# # amrestore file:/space/vtapes/ambackup/slots server.domain.tld

• repeat as required for all tapes listed in step (1)
• scp files to destination
• use GNU/tar to unzip the output from amanda (repeat as req)

[root@destination /]# tar -xpf /root/server.domain.tld._home.20070508.0