Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 March 2017 11:43:51 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:49:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 24 March 2017 11:51:27 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > I'd assume that if I suffered a disk failure, replaced the disk, > > > re-installed Jessie and tried to use Amanda

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 01:39:12PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I'm going to suggest that amanda is not the best solution for > you in this situation. I was actually starting to think the same thing myself as I was writing my original mail last night, but I do intend to expand my setup to include

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:49:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 24 March 2017 11:51:27 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > I'd assume that if I suffered a disk failure, replaced the disk, > > re-installed Jessie and tried to use Amanda to restore my backups of > > my stuff, I'd be hosed right now

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:51:27AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > A while back I installed Amanda for backups. I have a pretty simple > setup at the moment which I may expand later. At the moment only one > machine, running Jessie, is backed up by Amanda. > > My main PC is both the Amanda server

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 March 2017 11:51:27 Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello > > A while back I installed Amanda for backups. I have a pretty simple > setup at the moment which I may expand later. At the moment only one > machine, running Jessie, is backed up by Amanda. > > My main PC is both the Amanda server a

A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello A while back I installed Amanda for backups. I have a pretty simple setup at the moment which I may expand later. At the moment only one machine, running Jessie, is backed up by Amanda. My main PC is both the Amanda server and the machine Amanda is backing up. Recently I started to think