Amanda Restore -- need hand holding please

Setup, Configuration and Use Runtime
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My OH / OpenHabian / Rasp-Pi system just died, and it looks like the main SD card got fried i.e. the OS does not even boot. So I am starting to rebuild from scratch on a new SD.

Fortunately the old system did have Amanda installed and doing a daily back up to a second USB drive. Obviously that USB drive is very precious to me at the moment, since it (hopefully) has all my data on it, so I would appreciate some hand holding about how not to damage it by doing something stupid.

I have got a clean new SD set up now via OpenHabian and have OH is installed. I think the next step is to use OpenHabian-Config to install Amanda on this new system. I guess I should not plug the old backup USB drive into my new system until after Amanda is installed, since the new installation risks erasing the old backup. Or ?? So should I install Amanda using a second clean USB, and then swap back the original backup at some point. Or what?

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No 2nd disk, just unmount your backup disk, install Amanda to your system SD, then mount your backup disk over it. I think you cannot restore through Amanda tools though as you’ll be missing the database. IIRC the db data is not stored in the backup area but I believe there’s a tar or tgz copy somewhere on your backup disk, that you can copy over/extract to its original location. Copy file and unmount your disk before you extract, to play it safe.

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