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22 amrecover - Amanda index database browser
25 \fBamrecover\fR [[-C] \fIconfig\fR] [-s \fIindex-server\fR] [-t \fItape-server\fR] [-d \fItape-device\fR] [-o \fIclientconfigoption\fR]*
30 browses the database of
32 index files to determine which tapes contain files to recover. Furthermore, it is able to recover files.
34 In order to restore files in place, you must invoke
36 from the root of the backed up filesystem, or use
38 to move into that directory, otherwise a directory tree that resembles the backed up filesystem will be created in the current directory. See the examples below for details.
40 Amrecover will read the
41 \fBamanda-client.conf\fR
43 \fIconfig\fR\fB/amanda-client.conf\fR
48 man page for more details about
53 .nr an-no-space-flag 1
57 The Default values are those set at compile-time.
58 Use \fBamrestore\fR to recover client-encrypted or
59 client-custom-compressed tapes..TP
65 Host that runs the index daemon.
68 Host that runs the tape server daemon.
71 Tape device to use on the tape server host.
73 \fB-o\fR \fIclientconfigoption\fR
74 See the "\fBCONFIGURATION OVERWRITE\fR" section in
79 connects to the index server and then presents a command line prompt. Usage is similar to an ftp client. The GNU readline library is used to provide command line history and editing if it was built in to
82 The purpose of browsing the database is to build up a
84 of files to be extracted from the backup system. The following commands are available:
86 \fBsethost hostname\fR
87 Specifies which host to look at backup files for (default: the local host).
89 \fBsetdate YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM[-SS] | YYYY-MM-DD\fR
90 Set the restore time (default: now). File listing commands only return information on backup images for this day, for the day before with the next lower dump level, and so on, until the most recent level 0 backup on or before the specified date is encountered.
96 1996-07-01 was a level 0 backup
97 1996-07-02 through 1996-07-05 were level 1 backups
98 1996-07-06 through 1997-07-08 were level 2 backups
103 \fBsetdate 1997-07-08-00\fR
104 would yield files from the following days:
108 1997-07-08 (the latest level 2 backup)
109 1997-07-05 (the latest level 1 backup)
110 1997-07-01 (the latest level 0 backup)
114 Only the most recent version of a file will be presented.
116 The following abbreviated date specifications are accepted:
120 dates in the current year
123 dates in the current month of the current year
126 \fBsetdisk \fIdiskname\fR [\fImountpoint\fR]\fR
127 Specifies which disk to consider (default: the disk holding the working directory where
129 is started). It can only be set after the host is set with
132 is the device name specified in the
136 configuration file. The disk must be local to the host. If
138 is not specified, all pathnames will be relative to the (unknown) mount point instead of full pathnames.
140 \fBlisthost [diskdevice]\fR
144 \fBlistdisk [diskdevice]\fR
148 \fBsettape [[server]:][tapedev|default]\fR
149 Specifies the host to use as the tape server, and which of its tape devices to use. If the server is omitted, but the colon is not, the server name reverts to the configure-time default. If the tape device is omitted, it remains unchanged. To use the default tape device selected by the tape server, the word
151 must be specified. If no argument is specified, or the argument is an empty string, no changes occur, and the current settings are displayed.
153 If you want amrecover to use your changer, the
155 must be equal to the amrecover_changer setting on the server.
157 If you need to change the protocol (tape:, rait:, file:, null:) then you must specify the hostname.
160 settape 192.168.0.10:file:/file1
162 You can change the tape device when amrecover ask you to load the tape:
167 Tape device: server2:/dev/nst2
169 Using tape /dev/nst2 from server server2.
173 Set the extraction mode for Samba shares. If
176 \fBsmb\fR, shares are sent to the Samba server to be restored back onto the PC. If
179 \fBtar\fR, they are extracted on the local machine the same way tar volumes are extracted.
182 Displays the extracting mode for Samba shares.
185 Show the backup history of the current host and disk. Dates, levels, tapes and file position on tape of each backup are displayed.
188 Display the name of the current backup working directory.
191 Change the backup working directory to
193 If the mount point was specified with
194 \fBsetdisk\fR, this can be a full pathname or it can be relative to the current backup working directory. If the mount point was not specified, paths are relative to the mount point if they start with "/", otherwise they are relative to the current backup working directory. The
196 can be a shell style wildcards.
201 command but allow regular expression.
206 working directory. Files will be restored under this directory, relative to the backed up filesystem.
215 List the contents of the current backup working directory. See the description of the
217 command for how the view of the directory is built up. The backup date is shown for each file.
219 \fBadd item1 item2 ...\fR
220 Add the specified files or directories to the restore list. Each item may have shell style wildcards.
222 \fBaddx item1 item2 ...\fR
223 Add the specified files or directories to the restore list. Each item may be a regular expression.
225 \fBdelete item1 item2 ...\fR
226 Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list. Each item may have shell style wildcards.
228 \fBdeletex item1 item2 ...\fR
229 Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list. Each item may be a regular expression.
232 Display the contents of the restore list. If a file name is specified, the restore list is written to that file. This can be used to manually extract the files from the
238 Clear the restore list.
241 Close the connection to the index server and exit.
244 Close the connection to the index server and exit.
247 Start the extract sequence (see the examples below). Make sure the local working directory is the root of the backed up filesystem, or another directory that will behave like that. Use
249 to display the local working directory, and
254 Display a brief list of these commands.
257 The following shows the recovery of an old
264 syslog.7: No such file or directory
266 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
267 220 oops \fBAmanda\fR index server (2.4.2) ready.
268 Setting restore date to today (1997-12-09)
269 200 Working date set to 1997-12-09.
270 200 Config set to daily.
271 200 Dump host set to this-host.some.org.
272 $CWD '/var/log' is on disk '/var' mounted at '/var'.
273 200 Disk set to /var.
275 WARNING: not on root of selected filesystem, check man-page!
277 1997-12-09 daemon.log
280 1997-12-08 sysidconfig.log
289 amrecover> add syslog.7
297 Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192.168.0.10
299 The following tapes are needed: DMP014
301 Restoring files into directory /var
306 set owner/mode for '.'? [yn] n
311 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 12678 Oct 14 16:36 syslog.7
314 If you do not want to overwrite existing files, create a subdirectory to run
316 from and then move the restored files afterward.
320 # (umask 077 ; mkdir .restore)
323 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
329 amrecover> add syslog.7
335 Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192.168.0.10
339 # mv -i log/syslog.7 ../log/syslog.7-restored
346 by hand instead of letting
350 command after browsing to display the needed tapes.
355 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
359 amrecover> add syslog syslog.6 syslog.7
364 TAPE DMP014 LEVEL 0 DATE 1997-12-08
367 TAPE DMP015 LEVEL 1 DATE 1997-12-09
374 command shows each tape that has a backup of the current disk along with the date of the backup, the level, the tape label and the file position on the tape. All active tapes are listed, not just back to the most recent full dump.
376 Tape file position zero is a label. The first backup image is in file position one.
381 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
384 200- Dump history for config "daily" host "this-host.some.org" disk "/var"
385 201- 1997-12-09 1 DMP015 9
386 201- 1997-12-08 1 DMP014 11
387 201- 1997-12-07 0 DMP013 22
388 201- 1997-12-06 1 DMP012 16
389 201- 1997-12-05 1 DMP011 9
390 201- 1997-12-04 0 DMP010 11
391 201- 1997-12-03 1 DMP009 7
392 201- 1997-12-02 1 DMP008 7
393 201- 1997-12-01 1 DMP007 9
394 201- 1997-11-30 1 DMP006 6
404 commands will use $PAGER to display the file lists. Defaults to
409 If set, $AMANDA_SERVER will be used as index-server. The value will take precedence over the compiled default, but will be overridden by the -s switch.
411 \fBAMANDA_TAPE_SERVER\fR
412 If set, $AMANDA_TAPE_SERVER will be used as tape-server. The value will take precedence over the compiled default, but will be overridden by the -t switch.
416 <alan@kauri.auck.irl.cri.nz>
419 Stefan G. Weichinger,
420 <sgw@amanda.org>, maintainer of the
421 \fBAmanda\fR-documentation: XML-conversion
425 \fBamanda-client.conf\fR(5),
427 \fBamfetchdump\fR(8),