For years I have use amanda on centos
But centos still only offers amanda version 2.5.0
The management decided that we needed to encrypt the backups since they are stored off site
I believe that upgrading to amanda 3.2.1 and using amcrypt-ossl is a good solution
Previously I used the following as a guide in the event I had to rebuild with only a tape
# get a list of what is on the tape
mt -f /dev/nst1 rewind
amrestore -p /dev/nst1 no-such-host > /dev/null
# move to the desired fs and extract
mt -f /dev/nst1 rewind
mt -f /dev/nst1 fsf 7
dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k skip=1 | tar xvf -
Would someone comment on how this would go with amcrypt-ossl in the mix
Specifically how to rebuild a toc and use that to retrieve a file
I created a test server and made a test backup
Amrecover works with no problem
I have search the amanda wiki but only found documents that are marked obsolete
Richard
