Diff for "amanda_restore"

su - # goto superuser

Create recover directory and cd into it

amrecover

You get Amanda prompt - amrecover>

amrecover> listdisk - gives you available directories

amrecover> setdisk <disk>

amrecover>history - gives you days available

amrecover> setdate <date - as per history (cut & paste)>

amrecover>ls - gives avail directories

amrecover> add <directory or filename>

repeat selection process adding files required when done

amrecover>extract

will ask for confirmation

Bare metal recovery (abe example)

If unsure of how partition is done, you can re-do it later if you see the /etc/fstab. Otherwise, our standard is

1: / ext3 -- around 30GB
2: SWAP -- around 2GB
3: /u ext3 -- rest of the disk

.Then do a minimal text only server install (this will be blown away later and overwritten with contents of tape). Once machine is booted up, install amanda rpm. Go to our amanda backup machine (gonzo) and run:

rpm -qa|grep amanda

This will give you the version number you need. Amanda RPMs are available at http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php

wget <paste URL of amanda RPM for red hat enterprise 5 of your version>
rpm -ivh amanda-backup_client*.rpm

After installation, edit the /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf and change index_server and tape_server to gonzo.crecom.com.au. Hash out the tapedev.

index_server "gonzo.crecom.com.au"      # your amindexd server
tape_server  "gonzo.crecom.com.au"      # your amidxtaped server
#tapedev      "tape:/dev/YOUR-TAPE-DEVICE-HERE" # your tape device

Next go to your amanda backup server (gonzo) and add your host to /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts

test12.crecom.com.au root amindexd amidxtaped

Back on your blank host. you are ready to restore. (as root) run:

mkdir /u/restore
cd /u/restore
amrecover
listhost
sethost abe.crecom.com.au  <--- choose a host to restore from above list
setdisk /
add .
extract

Answer "Y" to all the questions. This will extract all your root partition files onto the /u partition since you can't just overwrite the root partition just yet. You will need to boot into the rescue CD to do that. If you have room on the /u partition (you should have plenty) proceed with the following. Otherwise, skip to the section that moves this to the root partition.

lcd u setdisk /u <

or other partitions add . extract

This will restore all the other partitions. Next shutdown the server and boot the rescue CD. Choose not to search for previous installs and just get a shell. If your original server had raid, it might be a good idea to restore this, even if you only have one disk (check /u/restore/etc/fstab if there is md0 and/or md1 in it):

First use fdisk to change type of partition to linux-raid (fd). If this is not aligned, we need to make sure it is aligned.

mdadm --add /dev/md0 --raid-level=1 --devices=2 /dev/sda1 missing
mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0
mkdir /mnt/sysimage
mkdir /mnt/oldu
mount /dev/md0 /mnt/sysimage
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/oldu
cd /mnt/sysimage
rsync -av ../oldu/restore/ ./
mount -obind /proc proc
mount -obind /dev dev
mount -obind /sys sys
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/md0