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10 .TH "AMSTAR" "8" "06/01/2010" "Amanda 3\&.1\&.0" "System Administration Commands"
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22 amstar \- Amanda Application to interface with star
25 Amstar is an Amanda Application API script\&. It should not be run by users directly\&. It uses star to backup and restore data\&.
28 This section lists the properties that control amstar\'s functionality\&. See
29 \fBamanda-applications\fR(7)
30 for information on application properties and how they are configured\&.
34 If set, theses options are passed asis to star\&. Each option must be a different value of the property\&. Some option can break how amanda do backup, use it with care\&.
38 property "COMMAND\-OPTIONS" "\-\-foo" "bar"
43 property "COMMAND\-OPTIONS" "\-\-foo bar"
50 If set, gnutar will backup from that directory instead of the \fIdiskdevice\fR set by the DLE\&. On restore, the data is restore in that directpory instead of the current working directory\&.
56 The default is "YES"\&. This property is deprecated and the default value can\'t be changed\&. star requires it when it works in dump mode\&. This corresponds to the \fI\-xdev\fR option of star\&.
62 If "YES" (the default), star will store sparse files efficiently\&. If "NO", then the \fI\-sparse\fR option is not given to star, and it will not try to detect sparse files\&.
68 If "YES", amstar will use a different tardump file for each DLE\&. The default is "NO"\&. This property is needed with older versions of star doing many dumps in parallel, because of a race condition in updating the tardump file\&.
74 The path to the star binary\&. The default is set when Amanda is built by the
75 \-\-with\-star configure option\&.
81 The directory where star stores the database it uses to generate incremental
82 dumps\&. The default is /etc/tardumps\&.
88 List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that are normal output from star\&. These output are in the "FAILED DUMP DETAILS" section of the email report if the dump result is STRANGE or FAILED\&. Default values:
90 "^could not open conf file"
91 "^Type of this level "
92 "^Date of this level "
93 "^Date of last level "
97 "^star: dumped [0\-9][0\-9]* (tar )?files"
98 "^\&.*The following problems occurred during \&.* processing\&.*$"
99 "^\&.*Processed all possible files, despite earlier errors\&.*$"
100 "^\&.*not written due to problems during backup\&.*$"
102 To treat one of these default patterns differently, specify it explicitly in a different property\&.
108 List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that amanda ignore\&. These output are never in the email report\&.
114 List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that are strange output from star\&. All star output that doesn\'t match a normal or ignore regex are strange by default\&. The result of the dump is STRANGE if star produce a strange output\&. These output are in the "FAILED DUMP DETAILS" section of the email report\&.
116 "^Perform a level 0 dump first\&.*$"
118 To treat one of these default patterns differently, specify it explicitly in a different property\&.
123 \fBamanda.conf\fR(5),
124 \fBamanda-applications\fR(7)
127 : http://wiki.zmanda.com/
130 \fBJean\-Louis Martineau\fR <\&martineau@zmanda\&.com\&>
132 Zmanda, Inc\&. (http://www\&.zmanda\&.com)
135 \fBDustin J\&. Mitchell\fR <\&dustin@zmanda\&.com\&>
137 Zmanda, Inc\&. (http://www\&.zmanda\&.com)