restore Unix system

From: Rav (ravcs_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: 28 Sep 2004 15:53:11 -0700

Hi all

We are using amanda to backup on of our unix systems which recently
had it's system disk failed...:-(

I am trying to restore the data from tape drive using ufsrestore.....

I have booted from cdrom in a single user mode and can see the tape.
I have partitoned the disk as it was on the old disk and have run
newfs on all slices......

I cannot make out what session is what part of the disk, as I need to
restore /, /opt, /usr, /home etc....is there any detailed
documentation on restoring without amanda....pls help..

have tried the following:
mt rew
mt fsf 1
dd if=/dev/rmt/0 bs=32k count=1

Any help will be much appreciated...thanks in advance

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