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Just to be clear about procedures -- and not to put down flash archives as a way of doing things -- ufsdump/restore has been used for a long time to recover systems. It may not "create" a bootable...

I use fssnap and ufsdump for regular backups by way of Amanda. I have run trials of recovering a system from ufsdumps. Boot off CDROM, plumb network interface, temporarily open up rsh between the two...

Since you have a spare server to use just in case . . . do a trial run. Recover to that server and bring it up to see if what you did works. You could recover to it, disconnect it from the network,...

Are you talking something like DDS/3? I'm not surprised. Newer technologies are more reliable and have better mechanisms for guaranteeing that the data is written accurately.

When I was doing...

I think the question is probably dealt with fairly often. Perhaps your degausser is one of the smaller hand units? Do a google on "commercial data tape destruction", and you will find plenty of hits...

hmm. Getting rid of?

Do you feel compelled to keep the tapes usable for someone else? And just how private is the data on them?

I would guess that a secure erase of a tape is analogous to a...

ufsdump/ufsrestore is native and works well for ufs file systems. Amanda uses the native tools, so they fit together just fine. If you want to do file system snapshots before doing ufsdump from...

Absolutely sure. No need to unmirror. However, I like to use live update to keep the down time at a minimum and to allow me to quickly and easily go back if the patches end up breaking something on...

Do you know any scripting at all? Start looking at man pages and testing individual commands at the command line. Then put them together in a script. The script is basically just a collection of...

OK, since you now seem to be back to something that works, change only one thing at a time so that testing and debugging is easier.

When you change your amanda.conf, start by making a copy...

I don't have much time right now. I'll try to help, but you have to help yourself as well. You obviously changed more than just adding encryption when you modified your working system. You deleted...

First off, listing error messages that reference a line of your amanda configuration are pretty useless without context. Please show the block of lines centered around the line referred to in the...

This is going to be open to a lot of opinion. But it also depends on more detailed information about your environment and needs. It's not clear from your message whether you are talking about a...

If you have several servers and want a central backup server, especially with the variety of things you have like MySQL, I personally would choose Amanda. You may want to use ZRM for MySQL (Zmanda...

I'm a little puzzled by the combination of the command you used and the error message you claim. The use of the f option followed by the argument /backup would indicate that you are wanting ufsdump...

OK. So we know (and you know) what you are up against. It may or may not still be on disk. The system is live. The more it is used, and the less free space there is on the system, the more likely...

Since you restored from a backup, I presume that was the last full backup? In other words, if you had a full backup from last night, it seems you would have chosen that. Then you would have only lost...

There is a somewhat obtuse graphical interface in which you can change a user's shell.

In System Preferences, click on Accounts. Then hold down the control key and click on the user account. You...

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Can't tell from your post whether you are a unix type getting into that aspect of MacOSX, or a Mac user just...

I have set up hardware raid on a couple of Sun servers running Solaris 10 and found in each case that a reboot was necessary before the OS properly saw the configuration of the raid device. Annoying,...

On my T5220's I've ended up using raidctl to set up hardware mirroring for the boot drive. Then I use ZFS to pool other drives. I've stopped using SVM, or any of it's previous renditions, although I...

Cool. Enterprising of you to look through the forums and find the public key stuff. I was going to suggest that, but thought we should resolve the other stuff first.

I don't think you need the ". ...

You're saying when you ran the script off cron, it gave a return code of 2, but you don't know how to setup mail . . . So, how did you get the output with the return code?

Anyway, 2 is a fatal...

For one thing, I would not use the `. /path/to/script` syntax. Put a first line in the script that says "#!/bin/ksh" or "#!/bin/bash" or whatever shell you use in your user environment. Then use...

First, you've hijacked a thread rather than starting your own. Second, you haven't provided enough information for anyone to help.

It's possible that it's related to environment. The cron...