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This manpage lists the -relevant sections and parameters of this file for quick reference. -The file //amanda.conf is loaded. - -PARAMETERS - -There are a number of configuration parameters that control the behavior of the -Amanda programs. All have default values, so you need not specify the parameter -in amanda.conf if the default is suitable. -Lines starting with # are ignored, as are blank lines. Comments may be placed -on a line with a directive by starting the comment with a #. The remainder of -the line is ignored. -Keywords are case insensitive, i.e. mailto and MailTo are treated the same. -Integer arguments may have one of the following (case insensitive) suffixes, -some of which have a multiplier effect: - -POSSIBLE SUFFIXES - - - - b byte bytes - Some number of bytes. - - bps - Some number of bytes per second. - - k kb kbyte kbytes kilobyte kilobytes - Some number of kilobytes (bytes*1024). - - kps kbps - Some number of kilobytes per second (bytes*1024). - - m mb meg mbyte mbytes megabyte megabytes - Some number of megabytes (bytes*1024*1024). - - mps mbps - Some number of megabytes per second (bytes*1024*1024). - - g gb gbyte gbytes gigabyte gigabytes - Some number of gigabytes (bytes*1024*1024*1024). - - tape tapes - Some number of tapes. - - day days - Some number of days. - - week weeks - Some number of weeks (days*7). - - Note - - The value inf may be used in most places where an integer is expected to - mean an infinite amount. - Boolean arguments may have any of the values y, yes, t, true or on to - indicate a true state, or n, no, f, false or off to indicate a false - state. If no argument is given, true is assumed. - - -PARAMETERS - - - - org string - Default: daily. A descriptive name for the configuration. This string - appears in the Subject line of mail reports. Each Amanda configuration - should have a different string to keep mail reports distinct. - - mailto string - Default: operators. A space separated list of recipients for mail - reports. - - dumpcycle int - Default: 10 days. The number of days in the backup cycle. Each disk will - get a full backup at least this often. Setting this to zero tries to do a - full backup each run. - - Note - - This parameter may also be set in a specific dumptype (see below). This - value sets the default for all dumptypes so must appear in amanda.conf - before any dumptypes are defined. - - runspercycle int - Default: same as dumpcycle. The number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days. - A value of 0 means the same value as dumpcycle. A value of -1 means guess - the number of runs from the tapelist file, which is the number of tapes - used in the last dumpcycle days / runtapes. - - tapecycle int - Default: 15 tapes. Typically tapes are used by Amanda in an ordered - rotation. The tapecycle parameter defines the size of that rotation. The - number of tapes in rotation must be larger than the number of tapes - required for a complete dump cycle (see the dumpcycle parameter). - This is calculated by multiplying the number of amdump runs per dump - cycle (runspercycle parameter) times the number of tapes used per run - (runtapes parameter). Typically two to four times this calculated number - of tapes are in rotation. While Amanda is always willing to use a new - tape in its rotation, it refuses to reuse a tape until at least - 'tapecycle -1' number of other tapes have been used. - It is considered good administrative practice to set the tapecycle - parameter slightly lower than the actual number of tapes in rotation. - This allows the administrator to more easily cope with damaged or - misplaced tapes or schedule adjustments that call for slight adjustments - in the rotation order. - - usetimestamps bool - Default: No. By default, Amanda can only track at most one run per - calendar day. When this option is enabled, however, Amanda can track as - many runs as you care to make. - WARNING: This option is not backward-compatible. Do not enable it if you - intend to downgrade your server installation to Amanda community edition - 2.5.0 - - label_new_tapes string - Default: not set. When set, this directive will cause Amanda to - automatically write an Amanda tape label to any blank tape she - encounters. This option is DANGEROUS because when set, Amanda will ERASE - any non-Amanda tapes you may have, and may also ERASE any near-failing - tapes. Use with caution. - When using this directive, specify the template for new tape labels. The - template should contain some number of contiguous '%' characters, which - will be replaced with a generated number. Be sure to specify enough '%' - characters that you do not run out of tape labels. Example: - label_new_tapes "DailySet1-%%%" - - dumpuser string - Default: amanda. The login name Amanda uses to run the backups. The - backup client hosts must allow access from the tape server host as this - user via .rhosts or .amandahosts, depending on how the Amanda software - was built. - - printer string - Printer to use when doing tape labels. See the lbl-templ tapetype option. - - tapedev string - Default: null:. The path name of the non-rewinding tape device. Non- - rewinding tape device names often have an 'n' in the name, e.g. /dev/rmt/ - 0mn, however this is operating system specific and you should consult - that documentation for detailed naming information. - If a tape changer is configured (see the tpchanger option), this option - might not be used. - If the null output driver is selected (see the section OUTPUT DRIVERS in - the amanda(8) manpage for more information), programs such as amdump will - run normally but all images will be thrown away. This should only be used - for debugging and testing, and probably only with the record option set - to no. - - rawtapedev string - Default: null:. The path name of the raw tape device. This is only used - if Amanda is compiled for Linux machines with floppy tapes and is needed - for QIC volume table operations. - - tpchanger string - Default: none. The name of the tape changer. If a tape changer is not - configured, this option is not used and should be commented out of the - configuration file. - If a tape changer is configured, choose one of the changer scripts (e.g. - chg-scsi) and enter that here. - - changerdev string - Default: /dev/null. A tape changer configuration parameter. Usage depends - on the particular changer defined with the tpchanger option. - - changerfile string - Default: /usr/adm/amanda/log/changer-status. A tape changer configuration - parameter. Usage depends on the particular changer defined with the - tpchanger option. - - runtapes int - Default: 1. The maximum number of tapes used in a single run. If a tape - changer is not configured, this option is not used and should be - commented out of the configuration file. - If a tape changer is configured, this may be set larger than one to let - Amanda write to more than one tape. - Note that this is an upper bound on the number of tapes, and Amanda may - use less. - Also note that as of this release, Amanda does not support true tape - overflow. When it reaches the end of one tape, the backup image Amanda - was processing starts over again on the next tape. - - maxdumpsize int - Default: runtapes*tape_length. Maximum number of bytes the planner will - schedule for a run. - - taperalgo [first|firstfit|largest|largestfit|smallest|last] - Default: first. The algorithm used to choose which dump image to send to - the taper. - - - first - First in, first out. - - firstfit - The first dump image that will fit on the current tape. - - largest - The largest dump image. - - largestfit - The largest dump image that will fit on the current tape. - - smallest - The smallest dump image. - - last - Last in, first out. - - - labelstr string - Default: .*. The tape label constraint regular expression. All tape - labels generated (see amlabel(8)) and used by this configuration must - match the regular expression. If multiple configurations are run from the - same tape server host, it is helpful to set their labels to different - strings (for example, "DAILY[0-9][0-9]*" vs. "ARCHIVE[0-9][0-9]*") to - avoid overwriting each other's tapes. - - tapetype string - Default: EXABYTE. The type of tape drive associated with tapedev or - tpchanger. This refers to one of the defined tapetypes in the config file - (see below), which specify various tape parameters, like the length, - filemark size, and speed of the tape media and device. - First character of a tapetype string must be an alphabetic character - - ctimeout int - Default: 30 seconds. Maximum amount of time that amcheck will wait for - each client host. - - dtimeout int - Default: 1800 seconds. Amount of idle time per disk on a given client - that a dumper running from within amdump will wait before it fails with a - data timeout error. - - etimeout int - Default: 300 seconds. Amount of time per disk on a given client that the - planner step of amdump will wait to get the dump size estimates. For - instance, with the default of 300 seconds and four disks on client A, - planner will wait up to 20 minutes for that machine. A negative value - will be interpreted as a total amount of time to wait per client instead - of per disk. - - connect_tries int - Default: 3. How many times the server will try a connection. - - req_tries int - Default: 3. How many times the server will resend a REQ packet if it - doesn't get the ACK packet. - - netusage int - Default: 300 Kbps. The maximum network bandwidth allocated to Amanda, in - Kbytes per second. See also the interface section. - - inparallel int - Default: 10. The maximum number of backups that Amanda will attempt to - run in parallel. Amanda will stay within the constraints of network - bandwidth and holding disk space available, so it doesn't hurt to set - this number a bit high. Some contention can occur with larger numbers of - backups, but this effect is relatively small on most systems. - - displayunit "k|m|g|t" - Default: "k". The unit used to print many numbers, k=kilo, m=mega, - g=giga, t=tera. - - dumporder string - Default: tttTTTTTTT. The priority order of each dumper: - - s: smallest size - S: largest size - t: smallest time - T: largest time - b: smallest bandwidth - B: largest bandwidth - - - maxdumps int - Default: 1. The maximum number of backups from a single host that Amanda - will attempt to run in parallel. See also the inparallel option. - Note that this parameter may also be set in a specific dumptype (see - below). This value sets the default for all dumptypes so must appear in - amanda.conf before any dumptypes are defined. - - bumpsize int - Default: 10 Mbytes. The minimum savings required to trigger an automatic - bump from one incremental level to the next, expressed as size. If Amanda - determines that the next higher backup level will be this much smaller - than the current level, it will do the next level. The value of this - parameter is used only if the parameter bumppercent is set to 0. - The global setting of this parameter can be overwritten inside of a - dumptype-definition. - See also the options bumppercent, bumpmult and bumpdays. - - bumppercent int - Default: 0 percent. The minimum savings required to trigger an automatic - bump from one incremental level to the next, expressed as percentage of - the current size of the DLE (size of current level 0). If Amanda - determines that the next higher backup level will be this much smaller - than the current level, it will do the next level. - If this parameter is set to 0, the value of the parameter bumpsize is - used to trigger bumping. - The global setting of this parameter can be overwritten inside of a - dumptype-definition. - See also the options bumpsize, bumpmult and bumpdays. - - bumpmult float - Default: 1.5. The bump size multiplier. Amanda multiplies bumpsize by - this factor for each level. This prevents active filesystems from bumping - too much by making it harder to bump to the next level. For example, with - the default bumpsize and bumpmult set to 2.0, the bump threshold will be - 10 Mbytes for level one, 20 Mbytes for level two, 40 Mbytes for level - three, and so on. - The global setting of this parameter can be overwritten inside of a - dumptype-definition. - - bumpdays int - Default: 2 days. To insure redundancy in the dumps, Amanda keeps - filesystems at the same incremental level for at least bumpdays days, - even if the other bump threshold criteria are met. - The global setting of this parameter can be overwritten inside of a - dumptype-definition. - - diskfile string - Default: disklist. The file name for the disklist file holding client - hosts, disks and other client dumping information. - - infofile string - Default: /usr/adm/amanda/curinfo. The file or directory name for the - historical information database. If Amanda was configured to use DBM - databases, this is the base file name for them. If it was configured to - use text formated databases (the default), this is the base directory and - within here will be a directory per client, then a directory per disk, - then a text file of data. - - logdir string - Default: /usr/adm/amanda. The directory for the amdump and log files. - - indexdir string - Default /usr/adm/amanda/index. The directory where index files (backup - image catalogues) are stored. Index files are only generated for - filesystems whose dumptype has the index option enabled. - - tapelist string - Default: tapelist. The file name for the active tapelist file. Amanda - maintains this file with information about the active set of tapes. - - tapebufs int - Default: 20. The number of buffers used by the taper process run by - amdump and amflush to hold data as it is read from the network or disk - before it is written to tape. Each buffer is a little larger than 32 - KBytes and is held in a shared memory region. - - reserve number - Default: 100. The part of holding-disk space that should be reserved for - incremental backups if no tape is available, expressed as a percentage of - the available holding-disk space (0-100). By default, when there is no - tape to write to, degraded mode (incremental) backups will be performed - to the holding disk. If full backups should also be allowed in this case, - the amount of holding disk space reserved for incrementals should be - lowered. - - autoflush bool - Default: off. Whether an amdump run will flush the dumps from holding - disk to tape. - - amrecover_do_fsf bool - Default: on. Amrecover will call amrestore with the -f flag for faster - positioning of the tape. - - amrecover_check_label bool - Default: on. Amrecover will call amrestore with the -l flag to check the - label. - - amrecover_changer string - Default: ''. Amrecover will use the changer if you use 'settape ' - and that string is the same as the amrecover_changer setting. - - columnspec string - Defines the width of columns amreport should use. String is a comma (',') - separated list of triples. Each triple consists of three parts which are - separated by a equal sign ('=') and a colon (':') (see the example). - These three parts specify: - - 1. the name of the column, which may be: - - Compress (compression ratio) - Disk (client disk name) - DumpRate (dump rate in KBytes/sec) - DumpTime (total dump time in hours:minutes) - HostName (client host name) - Level (dump level) - OrigKB (original image size in KBytes) - OutKB (output image size in KBytes) - TapeRate (tape writing rate in KBytes/sec) - TapeTime (total tape time in hours:minutes) - - - 2. the amount of space to display before the column (used to get - whitespace between columns). - 3. the width of the column itself. If set to a negative value, the - width will be calculated on demand to fit the largest entry in this - column. - - Here is an example: - - columnspec "Disk=1:18,HostName=0:10,OutKB=1:7" - - The above will display the disk information in 18 characters and put one - space before it. The hostname column will be 10 characters wide with no - space to the left. The output KBytes column is seven characters wide with - one space before it. - - includefile string - Default: none. The name of an Amanda configuration file to include within - the current file. Useful for sharing dumptypes, tapetypes and interface - definitions among several configurations. - - debug_auth int - Default: 0. Debug level of the auth module - - debug_event int - Default: 0. Debug level of the event module - - debug_holding int - Default: 0. Debug level of the holdingdisk module - - debug_protocol int - Default: 0. Debug level of the protocol module - - debug_planner int - Default: 0. Debug level of the planner process - - debug_driver int - Default: 0. Debug level of the driver process - - debug_dumper int - Default: 0. Debug level of the dumper process - - debug_chunker int - Default: 0. Debug level of the chunker process - - debug_taper int - Default: 0. Debug level of the taper process - - reserved-udp-port int,int - Default: --with-udpportrange or 512,1023. Reserved udp port that will be - used (bsd, bsdudp) - - reserved-tcp-port int,int - Default: --with-low-tcpportrange or 512,1023. Reserved tcp port that will - be used (bsdtcp) - - unreserved-tcp-port int,int - Default: --with-tcpportrange or 1025,65536. Unreserved tcp port that will - be used (bsd, bsdudp) - - -HOLDINGDISK SECTION - -The amanda.conf file may define one or more holding disks used as buffers to -hold backup images before they are written to tape. The syntax is: - - holdingdisk name { - holdingdisk-option holdingdisk-value - ... - } - -Name is a logical name for this holding disk. -The options and values are: - - - comment string - Default: none. A comment string describing this holding disk. - - directory disk - Default: /dumps/amanda. The path to this holding area. - - use int - Default: 0 Gb. Amount of space that can be used in this holding disk - area. If the value is zero, all available space on the file system is - used. If the value is negative, Amanda will use all available space minus - that value. - - chunksize int - Default: 1 Gb. Holding disk chunk size. Dumps larger than the specified - size will be stored in multiple holding disk files. The size of each - chunk will not exceed the specified value. However, even though dump - images are split in the holding disk, they are concatenated as they are - written to tape, so each dump image still corresponds to a single - continuous tape section. - If 0 is specified, Amanda will create holding disk chunks as large as ( - (INT_MAX/1024)-64) Kbytes. - Each holding disk chunk includes a 32 Kbyte header, so the minimum chunk - size is 64 Kbytes (but that would be really silly). - Operating systems that are limited to a maximum file size of 2 Gbytes - actually cannot handle files that large. They must be at least one byte - less than 2 Gbytes. Since Amanda works with 32 Kbyte blocks, and to - handle the final read at the end of the chunk, the chunk size should be - at least 64 Kbytes (2 * 32 Kbytes) smaller than the maximum file size, - e.g. 2047 Mbytes. - - -DUMPTYPE SECTION - -The amanda.conf file may define multiple sets of backup options and refer to -them by name from the disklist file. For instance, one set of options might be -defined for file systems that can benefit from high compression, another set -that does not compress well, another set for file systems that should always -get a full backup and so on. -A set of backup options are entered in a dumptype section, which looks like -this: - - define dumptype name { - dumptype-option dumptype-value - ... - } - -Name is the name of this set of backup options. It is referenced from the -disklist file. -Some of the options in a dumptype section are the same as those in the main -part of amanda.conf. The main option value is used to set the default for all -dumptype sections. For instance, setting dumpcycle to 50 in the main part of -the config file causes all following dumptype sections to start with that -value, but the value may be changed on a section by section basis. Changes to -variables in the main part of the config file must be done before (earlier in -the file) any dumptypes are defined. -The dumptype options and values are: - - - auth string - Default: bsd. Type of authorization to perform between tape server and - backup client hosts. - bsd, bsd authorization with udp initial connection and one tcp connection - by data stream. - bsdtcp, bsd authorization but use only one tcp connection. - bsdudp, like bsd, but will use only one tcp connection for all data - stream. - krb4 to use Kerberos-IV authorization. - krb5 to use Kerberos-V authorization. - rsh to use rsh authorization. - ssh to use OpenSSH authorization. - - amandad_path string - Default: $libexec/amandad. Specify the amandad path of the client, only - use with rsh/ssh authentification. - - client_username string - Default: CLIENT_LOGIN. Specify the username to connect on the client, - only use with rsh/ssh authentification. - - bumpsize int - Default: 10 Mbytes. The minimum savings required to trigger an automatic - bump from one incremental level to the next, expressed as size. If Amanda - determines that the next higher backup level will be this much smaller - than the current level, it will do the next level. The value of this - parameter is used only if the parameter bumppercent is set to 0. - See also the options bumppercent, bumpmult and bumpdays. - - bumppercent int - Default: 0 percent. The minimum savings required to trigger an automatic - bump from one incremental level to the next, expressed as percentage of - the current size of the DLE (size of current level 0). If Amanda - determines that the next higher backup level will be this much smaller - than the current level, it will do the next level. - If this parameter is set to 0, the value of the parameter bumpsize is - used to trigger bumping. - See also the options bumpsize, bumpmult and bumpdays. - - bumpmult float - Default: 1.5. The bump size multiplier. Amanda multiplies bumpsize by - this factor for each level. This prevents active filesystems from bumping - too much by making it harder to bump to the next level. For example, with - the default bumpsize and bumpmult set to 2.0, the bump threshold will be - 10 Mbytes for level one, 20 Mbytes for level two, 40 Mbytes for level - three, and so on. - - bumpdays int - Default: 2 days. To insure redundancy in the dumps, Amanda keeps - filesystems at the same incremental level for at least bumpdays days, - even if the other bump threshold criteria are met. - - comment string - Default: none. A comment string describing this set of backup options. - - comprate float [, float ] - Default: 0.50, 0.50. The expected full and incremental compression factor - for dumps. It is only used if Amanda does not have any history - information on compression rates for a filesystem, so should not usually - need to be set. However, it may be useful for the first time a very large - filesystem that compresses very little is backed up. - - compress [client|server] string - Default: client fast. If Amanda does compression of the backup images, it - can do so either on the backup client host before it crosses the network - or on the tape server host as it goes from the network into the holding - disk or to tape. Which place to do compression (if at all) depends on how - well the dump image usually compresses, the speed and load on the client - or server, network capacity, holding disk capacity, availability of tape - hardware compression, etc. - For either type of compression, Amanda also allows the selection of three - styles of compression. Best is the best compression available, often at - the expense of CPU overhead. Fast is often not as good a compression as - best, but usually less CPU overhead. Or to specify Custom to use your own - compression method. (See dumptype custom-compress in example/amanda.conf - for reference) - So the compress options line may be one of: - - - compress none - - compress client fast - - compress client best - - compress client custom - Specify client_custom_compress "PROG" - PROG must not contain white space and it must accept -d for - uncompress. - - compress server fast - - compress server best - - compress server custom - Specify server_custom_compress "PROG" - PROG must not contain white space and it must accept -d for - uncompress. - - Note that some tape devices do compression and this option has nothing to - do with whether that is used. If hardware compression is used (usually - via a particular tape device name or mt option), Amanda (software) - compression should be disabled. - - dumpcycle int - Default: 10 days. The number of days in the backup cycle. Each disk using - this set of options will get a full backup at least this of ten. Setting - this to zero tries to do a full backup each run. - - encrypt [none|client|server] - Default: none. To encrypt backup images, it can do so either on the - backup client host before it crosses the network or on the tape server - host as it goes from the network into the holding disk or to tape. - So the encrypt options line may be one of: - - - encrypt none - - encrypt client - Specify client_encrypt "PROG" - PROG must not contain white space. - Specify client_decrypt_option "decryption-parameter" Default: "-d" - decryption-parameter must not contain white space. - (See dumptype server-encrypt-fast in example/amanda.conf for - reference) - - encrypt server - Specify server_encrypt "PROG" - PROG must not contain white space. - Specify server_decrypt_option "decryption-parameter" Default: "-d" - decryption-parameter must not contain white space. - (See dumptype client-encrypt-nocomp in example/amanda.conf for - reference) - - Note that current logic assumes compression then encryption during backup - (thus decrypt then uncompress during restore). So specifying client- - encryption AND server-compression is not supported. amcrypt which is a - wrapper of aespipe is provided as a reference symmetric encryption - program. - - estimate client|calcsize|server - Default: client. Determine the way Amanda does it's estimate. - - - client - Use the same program as the dumping program, this is the most - accurate way to do estimates, but it can take a long time. - - calcsize - Use a faster program to do estimates, but the result is less - accurate. - - server - Use only statistics from the previous run to give an estimate, it - takes only a few seconds but the result is not accurate if your - disk usage changes from day to day. - - - exclude [ list|file ][[optional][ append ][ string ]+] - Default: file. There are two exclude lists, exclude file and exclude - list. With exclude file , the string is a GNU-tar exclude expression. - With exclude list , the string is a file name on the client containing - GNU-tar exclude expressions. The path to the specified exclude list file, - if present (see description of 'optional' below), must be readable by the - Amanda user. - All exclude expressions are concatenated in one file and passed to GNU- - tar as an --exclude-from argument. - Exclude expressions must always be specified as relative to the head - directory of the DLE. - With the append keyword, the string is appended to the current list, - without it, the string overwrites the list. - If optional is specified for exclude list, then amcheck will not complain - if the file doesn't exist or is not readable. - For exclude list, if the file name is relative, the disk name being - backed up is prepended. So if this is entered: - - exclude list ".amanda.excludes" - - the actual file used would be /var/.amanda.excludes for a backup of /var, - /usr/local/.amanda.excludes for a backup of /usr/local, and so on. - - holdingdisk [ never|auto|required ] - Default: auto. Whether a holding disk should be used for these backups or - whether they should go directly to tape. If the holding disk is a portion - of another file system that Amanda is backing up, that file system should - refer to a dumptype with holdingdisk set to never to avoid backing up the - holding disk into itself. - - - never|no|false|off - Never use a holdingdisk, the dump will always go directly to tape. - There will be no dump if you have a tape error. - - auto|yes|true|on - Use the holding disk, unless there is a problem with the holding - disk, the dump won't fit there or the medium doesn't require - spooling (e.g., VFS device) - - required - Always dump to holdingdisk, never directly to tape. There will be - no dump if it doesn't fit on holdingdisk - - - ignore boolean - Default: no. Whether disks associated with this backup type should be - backed up or not. This option is useful when the disklist file is shared - among several configurations, some of which should not back up all the - listed file systems. - - include [ list|file ][[optional][ append ][ string ]+] - Default: file ".". There are two include lists, include file and include - list. With include file , the string is a glob expression. With include - list , the string is a file name on the client containing glob - expressions. - All include expressions are expanded by Amanda, concatenated in one file - and passed to GNU-tar as a --files-from argument. They must start with - "./" and contain no other "/". - Include expressions must always be specified as relative to the head - directory of the DLE. - - Note - - For globbing to work at all, even the limited single level, the top level - directory of the DLE must be readable by the Amanda user. - With the append keyword, the string is appended to the current list, - without it, the string overwrites the list. - If optional is specified for include list, then amcheck will not complain - if the file doesn't exist or is not readable. - For include list, If the file name is relative, the disk name being - backed up is prepended. - - index boolean - Default: no. Whether an index (catalogue) of the backup should be - generated and saved in indexdir. These catalogues are used by the - amrecover utility. - - kencrypt boolean - Default: no. Whether the backup image should be encrypted by Kerberos as - it is sent across the network from the backup client host to the tape - server host. - - maxdumps int - Default: 1. The maximum number of backups from a single host that Amanda - will attempt to run in parallel. See also the main section parameter - inparallel. - - maxpromoteday int - Default: 10000. The maximum number of day for a promotion, set it 0 if - you don't want promotion, set it to 1 or 2 if your disks get - overpromoted. - - priority string - Default: medium. When there is no tape to write to, Amanda will do - incremental backups in priority order to the holding disk. The priority - may be high (2), medium (1), low (0) or a number of your choice. - - program string - Default: DUMP. The type of backup to perform. Valid values are DUMP for - the native operating system backup program, and GNUTAR to use GNU-tar or - to do PC backups using Samba. - - record boolean - Default: yes. Whether to ask the backup program to update its database - (e.g. /etc/dumpdates for DUMP or /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists for - GNUTAR) of time stamps. This is normally enabled for daily backups and - turned off for periodic archival runs. - - skip-full boolean - Default: no. If true and planner has scheduled a full backup, these disks - will be skipped, and full backups should be run off-line on these days. - It was reported that Amanda only schedules level 1 incrementals in this - configuration; this is probably a bug. - - skip-incr boolean - Default: no. If true and planner has scheduled an incremental backup, - these disks will be skipped. - - starttime int - Default: none. Backups will not start until after this time of day. The - value should be hh*100+mm, e.g. 6:30PM (18:30) would be entered as 1830. - - strategy string - Default: standard. Strategy to use when planning what level of backup to - run next. Values are: - - - standard - The standard Amanda schedule. - - nofull - Never do full backups, only level 1 incrementals. - - noinc - Never do incremental backups, only full dumps. - - skip - Never do backups (useful when sharing the disklist file). - - incronly - Only do incremental dumps. amadmin force should be used to tell - Amanda that a full dump has been performed off-line, so that it - resets to level 1. It is similar to skip-full, but with incronly - full dumps may be scheduled manually. Unfortunately, it appears - that Amanda will perform full backups with this configuration, - which is probably a bug. - - - tape_splitsize int - Default: none. Split dump file on tape into pieces of a specified size. - This allows dumps to be spread across multiple tapes, and can potentially - make more efficient use of tape space. Note that if this value is too - large (more than half the size of the average dump being split), - substantial tape space can be wasted. If too small, large dumps will be - split into innumerable tiny dumpfiles, adding to restoration complexity. - A good rule of thumb, usually, is 1/10 of the size of your tape. - - split_diskbuffer string - Default: none. When dumping a split dump in PORT-WRITE mode (usually - meaning "no holding disk"), buffer the split chunks to a file in the - directory specified by this option. - - fallback_splitsize int - Default: 10M. When dumping a split dump in PORT-WRITE mode, if no - split_diskbuffer is specified (or if we somehow fail to use our - split_diskbuffer), we must buffer split chunks in memory. This specifies - the maximum size split chunks can be in this scenario, and thus the - maximum amount of memory consumed for in-memory splitting. The size of - this buffer can be changed from its (very conservative) default to a - value reflecting the amount of memory that each taper process on the dump - server may reasonably consume. - -The following dumptype entries are predefined by Amanda: - - define dumptype no-compress { - compress none - } - define dumptype compress-fast { - compress client fast - } - define dumptype compress-best { - compress client best - } - define dumptype srvcompress { - compress server fast - } - define dumptype bsd-auth { - auth bsd - } - define dumptype krb4-auth { - auth krb4 - } - define dumptype no-record { - record no - } - define dumptype no-hold { - holdingdisk no - } - define dumptype no-full { - skip-full yes - } - -In addition to options in a dumptype section, one or more other dumptype names -may be entered, which make this dumptype inherit options from other previously -defined dumptypes. For instance, two sections might be the same except for the -record option: - - define dumptype normal { - comment "Normal backup, no compression, do indexing" - no-compress - index yes - maxdumps 2 - } - define dumptype testing { - comment "Test backup, no compression, do indexing, no recording" - normal - record no - } - -Amanda provides a dumptype named global in the sample amanda.conf file that all -dumptypes should reference. This provides an easy place to make changes that -will affect every dumptype. - -TAPETYPE SECTION - -The amanda.conf file may define multiple types of tape media and devices. The -information is entered in a tapetype section, which looks like this in the -config file: - - define tapetype name { - tapetype-option tapetype-value - ... - } - -Name is the name of this type of tape medium/device. It is referenced from the -tapetype option in the main part of the config file. -The tapetype options and values are: - - - comment string - Default: none. A comment string describing this set of tape information. - - filemark int - Default: 1 kbytes. How large a file mark (tape mark) is, measured in - kbytes. If the size is only known in some linear measurement (e.g. - inches), convert it to kbytes using the device density. - - length int - Default: 2000 kbytes. How much data will fit on a tape. - Note that this value is only used by Amanda to schedule which backups - will be run. Once the backups start, Amanda will continue to write to a - tape until it gets an error, regardless of what value is entered for - length (but see the section OUTPUT DRIVERS in the amanda(8) manpage for - exceptions). - - blocksize int - Default: 32 kbytes. How much data will be written in each tape record - expressed in KiloBytes. The tape record size (= blocksize) can not be - reduced below the default 32 KBytes. The parameter blocksize can only be - raised if Amanda was compiled with the configure option --with- - maxtapeblocksize=N set with "N" greater than 32 during configure. - - readblocksize int - Default: (from configure --with-maxtapeblocksize). How much data will be - read in each tape record expressed in KiloBytes. Some hardware require a - value not too large, and some require it to be equal to the blocksize. It - is useful if you configured amanda with a big --with-maxtapeblocksize and - your hardware don't work with a value that big. - - file-pad boolean - Default: true. If true, every record, including the last one in the file, - will have the same length. This matches the way Amanda wrote tapes prior - to the availability of this parameter. It may also be useful on devices - that only support a fixed blocksize. - Note that the last record on the tape probably includes trailing null - byte padding, which will be passed back to gzip, compress or the restore - program. Most programs just ignore this (although possibly with a - warning). - If this parameter is false, the last record in a file may be shorter than - the block size. The file will contain the same amount of data the dump - program generated, without trailing null byte padding. When read, the - same amount of data that was written will be returned. - - speed int - Default: 200 bps. How fast the drive will accept data, in bytes per - second. This parameter is NOT currently used by Amanda. - - lbl-templ string - A PostScript template file used by amreport to generate labels. Several - sample files are provided with the Amanda sources in the example - directory. See the amreport(8) man page for more information. - -In addition to options, another tapetype name may be entered, which makes this -tapetype inherit options from another tapetype. For instance, the only -difference between a DLT4000 tape drive using Compact-III tapes and one using -Compact-IV tapes is the length of the tape. So they could be entered as: - - define tapetype DLT4000-III { - comment "DLT4000 tape drives with Compact-III tapes" - length 12500 mbytes # 10 Gig tapes with some compression - filemark 2000 kbytes - speed 1536 kps - } - define tapetype DLT4000-IV { - DLT4000-III - comment "DLT4000 tape drives with Compact-IV tapes" - length 25000 mbytes # 20 Gig tapes with some compression - } - - -INTERFACE SECTION - -The amanda.conf file may define multiple types of network interfaces. The -information is entered in an interface section, which looks like this: - - define interface name { - interface-option interface-value - ... - } - -name is the name of this type of network interface. It is referenced from the -disklist file. -Note that these sections define network interface characteristics, not the -actual interface that will be used. Nor do they impose limits on the bandwidth -that will actually be taken up by Amanda. Amanda computes the estimated -bandwidth each file system backup will take based on the estimated size and -time, then compares that plus any other running backups with the limit as -another of the criteria when deciding whether to start the backup. Once a -backup starts, Amanda will use as much of the network as it can leaving -throttling up to the operating system and network hardware. -The interface options and values are: - - - comment string - Default: none. A comment string describing this set of network - information. - - use int - Default: 300 Kbps. The speed of the interface in Kbytes per second. - -In addition to options, another interface name may be entered, which makes this -interface inherit options from another interface. At the moment, this is of -little use. - -AUTHOR - -James da Silva, : Original text -Stefan G. Weichinger, , maintainer of the Amanda-documentation: -XML-conversion, major update, splitting - -SEE ALSO - -amanda(8), amanda-client.conf(5), amcrypt(8), aespipe(1), -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Prev Up Next -amanda Home amanda-client.conf -