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Date:      17 Jan 2002 11:15:01 -0500
From:      Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>
To:        "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BACKUP SOFTWARE FOR FREEBSD
Message-ID:  <87zo3dq7i2.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org>
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"W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> writes:

> How about restoring files?  What if I just want to restore
> a few files?  A single directory?

There's "amrestore" and "amrecover". Can't remember which does which
now.  One of them is nice in that it looks into an "index" file
created by "amdump" according to your dumptypes:

> >define dumptype global {
> >    comment "Global definitions"
> >    index yes
> >}


You walk through the utility and specify files to add to your recover,
then tell it to do it, it tells you the name of the tape it wants, put
it in, and off it goes.   IIRC you have to name the partition
according to the name you gave it in the disklist config file, e.g.,
if you called it "da0s1h" you can't ask for it as "/home".  Here's my
"disklist" file for your amusement -- specifies local and remote hosts
and the disk partitions for the server to pull down, and a priority
for each.

Getting the .amhosts authentication to work is probably the trickiest
part, but use "amcheck" to find out what it can and can't get into.


# I can do this to "localhost" but not "thanatos":
# ERROR: thanatos: [hostnames do not match: thanatos.shenton.org localhost]

localhost	da0s1a		nocomp-root		# /
localhost	da0s1e		nocomp-user		# /var
localhost	da0s1f		nocomp-root		# /tmp
localhost	da0s1g		nocomp-user		# /usr
localhost	da0s1h		nocomp-high		# /home

# ERROR: absinthe: [addr 192.168.255.180: hostname lookup failed]
# Fixed ^ by adding 192.168.255 to Absinthe's DNS slave.
# New --v
# ERROR: absinthe: [ip address 192.168.255.180 is not in the ip list for
#                   thanatos.shenton.org]
# Fixed ^: needed to remove old host addr for Thanatos from absinthe:/etc/hosts

absinthe	c0t3d0s0	nocomp-root		# /
absinthe	c0t3d0s1	nocomp-user		# /var
absinthe	c0t3d0s7	nocomp-user		# /export/home

# ERROR: sisyphus: [addr 192.168.255.180: hostname lookup failed]
# FIXED by adding 192.168.255 to Absinthe's DNS slave.

sisyphus	wd0s2a		nocomp-root		# /
sisyphus	wd0s2e		nocomp-root		# /var
sisyphus	wd0s2f		nocomp-user		# /usr
sisyphus	wd0s2g		nocomp-user		# /home

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