The ultimate goal of all of this backing up, for us, is in case
there's some sort of catastrophic failure. Like, the server room burns down.
But if that happened, the machine that's making the tapes would be lost as
well. Which means that with my very limited knowledge of Amanda, I don't know
how to recover from a tape without the Amanda server that created it.
If I were to copy /var/lib/amanda and /etc/amanda to some other
remote system, is that enough to reconstruct the tape logs (for lack of a
better term) and configuration that would be needed to perform recoveries?
Obviously I'd need to install Amanda on the replacement server, but if I had
those files, would that let Amanda think that it was the system that had
created those tapes, at least enough to read them? Is there a better way to do
this?
Thanks,
-Sandro
