X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Famgtar.8;h=fd51c99b735d068f200fc0d81515b3fac3098212;hb=fd48f3e498442f0cbff5f3606c7c403d0566150e;hp=827c9600ce3375d2db37a34f63875e389b6ea7eb;hpb=96f35b20267e8b1a1c846d476f27fcd330e0b018;p=debian%2Famanda diff --git a/man/amgtar.8 b/man/amgtar.8 index 827c960..fd51c99 100644 --- a/man/amgtar.8 +++ b/man/amgtar.8 @@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ .\" Title: amgtar .\" Author: Jean-Louis Martineau .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot_8273 -.\" Date: 11/05/2009 +.\" Date: 06/01/2010 .\" Manual: System Administration Commands -.\" Source: Amanda 2.6.1p2 +.\" Source: Amanda 3.1.0 .\" Language: English .\" -.TH "AMGTAR" "8" "11/05/2009" "Amanda 2\&.6\&.1p2" "System Administration Commands" +.TH "AMGTAR" "8" "06/01/2010" "Amanda 3\&.1\&.0" "System Administration Commands" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * set default formatting .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ amgtar \- Amanda Application to interface with GNU Tar .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP -Amgtar is an -\fIAmanda\fR -Application API script\&. It should not be run by users directly\&. It uses GNU Tar to backup and restore data\&. +Amgtar is an Amanda Application API script\&. It should not be run by users directly\&. It uses GNU Tar to backup and restore data\&. .SH "PROPERTIES" .PP This section lists the properties that control amgtar\'s functionality\&. See @@ -43,22 +41,49 @@ CHECK\-DEVICE If "YES" (the default), amgtar checks that the device number doesn\'t change for each file\&. If "NO", changes in device number are ignored\&. To ignore device numbers, tar must support the \fI\-\-no\-check\-device\fR option (gnutar 1\&.19\&.90 and newer)\&. This option is needed for some filesystems and devices on which device numbers change frequently, such as LVM or FiberChannel\&. .RE .PP +COMMAND\-OPTIONS +.RS 4 +If set, theses options are passed asis to gtar\&. Each option must be a different value of the property\&. Some option can break how amanda do backup, use it with care\&. + +Use: +.nf + property "COMMAND\-OPTIONS" "\-\-foo" "bar" +.fi + +Do not use: +.nf + property "COMMAND\-OPTIONS" "\-\-foo bar" +.fi +.RE +.PP DIRECTORY .RS 4 -If set, gnutar will backup from that directory instead of the \fIdiskdevice\fR set by the DLE\&. +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 directory instead of the current working directory\&. .RE .PP GNUTAR\-LISTDIR .RS 4 -The directory where gnutar stores the database it uses to generate incremental dumps\&. The default is set when \fIAmanda\fR is built\&. +The directory where gnutar stores the database it uses to generate incremental dumps\&. The default is set when Amanda is built\&. .RE .PP GNUTAR\-PATH .RS 4 -The path to the gnutar binary\&. The default is set when \fIAmanda\fR is built\&. +The path to the gnutar binary\&. The default is set when Amanda is built\&. +.RE +.PP +INCLUDE\-LIST\-GLOB +.RS 4 + +A filename containing include glob expression for the restore command\&. +.RE +.PP +EXCLUDE\-LIST\-GLOB +.RS 4 + +A filename containing exclude glob expression for the restore command\&. .RE .PP ONE\-FILE\-SYSTEM @@ -79,6 +104,30 @@ SPARSE If "YES" (the default), gnutar will store sparse files efficiently\&. If "NO", then the \fI\-\-sparse\fR option is not given to gnutar, and it will not try to detect sparse files\&. .RE .PP +NO\-UNQUOTE +.RS 4 + +If "NO" (the default), gnutar doesn\'t get the \fI\-\-no\-unquote\fR option and the diskname can\'t have some characters, eg\&. \'\e\'\&. If "YES", then the \fI\-\-no\-unquote\fR option is given to gnutar and the diskname can have any characters\&. This option is available only if you are using tar\-1\&.16 or newer\&. +.RE +.PP +ACLS +.RS 4 + +Default "NO"\&. If "YES", gnutar will preserve ACL extended attributes\&. This corresponds to the \fI\-\-acls\fR gnutar option\&. Requires a GNU Tar with nonstandard extended attribute patches from the Fedora Project\&. +.RE +.PP +SELINUX +.RS 4 + +Default "NO"\&. If "YES", gnutar will preserve SELinux extended attributes on Linux\&. This corresponds to the \fI\-\-selinux\fR gnutar option\&. Requires a GNU Tar with nonstandard extended attribute patches from the Fedora Project\&. +.RE +.PP +XATTRS +.RS 4 + +Default "NO"\&. If "YES", gnutar will preserve all extended attributes\&. This corresponds to the \fI\-\-xattrs\fR gnutar option\&. If enabled, this option also implies the ACLS and SELINUX properties, regardless of their settings, as they are implemented as extended attributes\&. Requires a GNU Tar with nonstandard extended attribute patches from the Fedora Project\&. +.RE +.PP EXIT\-HANDLING .RS 4 @@ -117,16 +166,51 @@ STRANGE List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that are strange output from gtar\&. All gtar output that doesn\'t match a normal or ignore regex are strange by default\&. The result of the dump is STRANGE if gtar produce a strange output\&. These output are in the "FAILED DUMP DETAILS" section of the email report\&. .RE +.SH "INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE LISTS" +.PP +This application supplies exclude lists via the +\fBGNU\-tar\fR +\fB\-\-exclude\-from\fR +option\&. This option accepts normal shell\-style wildcard expressions, using +\fB*\fR +to match any number of characters and +\fB?\fR +to match a single character\&. Character classes are represented with +\fB[\&.\&.]\fR, which will match any of the characters in the brackets\&. Expressions can be "anchored" to the base directory of the DLE by prefixing them with "\&./"\&. Without this prefix, they will match at any directory level\&. Expressions that begin or end with a "/" will not match anything: to completely exclude a directory, do not include the trailing slash\&. Example expressions: +.sp +.nf + \&./temp\-files # exclude top\-level directory entirely + \&./temp\-files/ # BAD: does nothing + /temp\-files # BAD: does nothing + \&./temp\-files/* # exclude directory contents; include directory + temp\-files # exclude anything named "temp\-files" + generated\-* # exclude anything beginning with "generated\-" + *\&.iso # exclude ISO files + proxy/local/cache # exclude "cache" in dir "local" in "proxy" +.fi +.PP +Similarly, include expressions are supplied to +\fBGNU\-tar\fR\'s +\fB\-\-files\-from\fR +option\&. This option ordinarily does not accept any sort of wildcards, but amgtar "manually" applies glob pattern matching to include expressions with only one slash\&. The expressions must still begin with "\&./", so this effectively only allows expressions like "\&./[abc]*" or "\&./*\&.txt"\&. .SH "EXAMPLE" +.PP + +.sp .nf define application\-tool app_amgtar { + plugin "amgtar" + property "ATIME\-PRESERVE" "NO" property "CHECK\-DEVICE" "YES" - property "GNUTAR\-LISTDIR" " + property "GNUTAR\-LISTDIR" "/path/to/listdir" property "GNUTAR\-PATH" "/bin/tar" property "ONE\-FILE\-SYSTEM" "YES" - property "TAR_BLOCKSIZE" "20" + property "TAR\-BLOCKSIZE" "20" property "SPARSE" "YES" + property "ACLS" "NO" + property "SELINUX" "NO" + property "XATTRS" "NO" property "EXIT\-HANDLING" "1=GOOD 2=BAD" # change a default NORMAL regex to a STRANGE regex\&. property "STRANGE" ": socket ignored$" @@ -136,11 +220,31 @@ List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that are strange outpu property append "IGNORE" "file changed as we read it$" } .fi +A dumptype using this application might look like: +.sp +.nf + define dumptype amgtar_app_dtyp { + global + program "APPLICATION" + application "app_amgtar" + } +.fi +Note that the +\fIprogram\fR +parameter must be set to +\fI"APPLCIATION"\fR +to use the +\fIapplication\fR +parameter\&. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP - +\fBamanda\fR(8), +\fBtar\fR(1), \fBamanda.conf\fR(5), \fBamanda-applications\fR(7) +.PP +The Amanda Wiki: +: http://wiki.zmanda.com/ .SH "AUTHORS" .PP \fBJean\-Louis Martineau\fR <\&martineau@zmanda\&.com\&>