HOWTO Restore Files From Amanda

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How to restore files from an Amanda tape backup.

Finding Where the Files you want to Restore are Located

# su - amanda
# amadmin $backupname find $hostname/$ipaddress $directorypath
# amadmin DailyMusashi find 209.87.56.16 /etc

You should see something like this: 

2006-04-07 209.87.56.16 /etc/  0 DailyMusashi20   24 OK
2006-04-10 209.87.56.16 /etc/  1 DailyMusashi21   16 OK
2006-04-11 209.87.56.16 /etc/  1 DailyMusashi22   19 OK
2006-04-12 209.87.56.16 /etc/  1 DailyMusashi23   23 OK
2006-04-13 209.87.56.16 /etc/  1 DailyMusashi24   29 OK
2006-04-18 209.87.56.16 /etc/  1 DailyMusashi25   23 OK

Restoring Files

Now that you know what tape the files are on, insert the tape into the drive and ask for the files. Note: The files will be extracted into the current directory. 

# mkdir restore; cd restore
# amrestore -p /dev/nst0 209.87.56.16 /etc | tar xvf -

Finish Up

Rewind a tape: 

# mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
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