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20 .TH "AMRECOVER" 8 "" "" ""
22 amrecover \- AMANDA index database browser
27 \fBamrecover\fR [[\-C]\ \fIconfig\fR] [\-s\ \fIindex\-server\fR] [\-t\ \fItape\-server\fR] [\-d\ \fItape\-device\fR]
34 \fBAmrecover\fR browses the database of \fBAMANDA\fR index files to determine which tapes contain files to recover\&. Furthermore, it is able to recover files\&.
37 In order to restore files in place, you must invoke \fBamrecover\fR from the root of the backed up filesystem, or use \fBlcd\fR 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 See the \fBamanda\fR(8) man page for more details about \fBAMANDA\fR\&.
46 The listed defaults map to the values you ran the configure\-script with\&.
51 \fBAMANDA\fR configuration (default: daily)\&.
54 \fB\-s index\-server\fR
55 Host that runs the index daemon (default: oops)\&.
58 \fB\-t tape\-server\fR
59 Host that runs the tape server daemon (default: 192\&.168\&.0\&.10)\&.
62 \fB\-d tape\-device\fR
63 Tape device to use on the tape server host (default: /dev/nst0)\&.
68 \fBAmrecover\fR 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 \fBamrecover\fR\&.
71 The purpose of browsing the database is to build up a \fBrestore list\fR of files to be extracted from the backup system\&. The following commands are available:
74 \fBsethost hostname\fR
75 Specifies which host to look at backup files for (default: the local host)\&.
78 \fBsetdate YYYY\-MM\-DD\fR
79 Set the date (default: today)\&. 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\&.
86 1996\-07\-01 was a level 0 backup
87 1996\-07\-02 through 1996\-07\-05 were level 1 backups
88 1996\-07\-06 through 1997\-07\-08 were level 2 backups
91 then if 1997\-07\-08 is the requested date, files from the following days would be used:
96 1997\-07\-08 (the latest level 2 backup)
97 1997\-07\-05 (the latest level 1 backup)
98 1997\-07\-01 (the latest level 0 backup)
101 Only the most recent version of a file will be presented\&.
103 The following abbreviated date specifications are accepted:
109 dates in the current year
113 dates in the current month of the current year
119 \fBsetdisk diskname mountpoint\fR
120 Specifies which disk to consider (default: the disk holding the working directory where \fBamrecover\fR is started)\&. It can only be set after the host is set with \fBsethost\fR\&. \fBDiskname\fR is the device name specified in the \fBamanda\&.conf\fR or \fBdisklist\fR configuration file\&. The disk must be local to the host\&. If \fBmountpoint\fR is not specified, all pathnames will be relative to the (unknown) mount point instead of full pathnames\&.
123 \fBlistdisk [diskdevice]\fR
124 List all \fBdiskname\fR
127 \fBsettape [[server]:][tapedev|default]\fR
128 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 192\&.168\&.0\&.10, 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 \fBdefault\fR must be specified\&. If no argument is specified, or the argument is an empty string, no changes occur, and the current settings are displayed\&.
130 If you want amrecover to use your changer, the \fBtapedev\fR must be equal to the amrecover_changer setting on the server\&.
132 If you need to change the protocol (tape:, rait:, file:, null:) then you must specify the hostname\&.
136 settape 192\&.168\&.0\&.10:file:/file1
138 You can change the tape device when amrecover ask you to load the tape:
143 Tape device: server2:/dev/nst2
145 Using tape /dev/nst2 from server server2\&.
150 Set the extraction mode for Samba shares\&. If \fBmode\fR is \fBsmb\fR, shares are sent to the Samba server to be restored back onto the PC\&. If \fBmode\fR is \fBtar\fR, they are extracted on the local machine the same way tar volumes are extracted\&.
154 Displays the extracting mode for Samba shares\&.
158 Show the backup history of the current host and disk\&. Dates, levels, tapes and file position on tape of each backup are displayed\&.
162 Display the name of the current backup working directory\&.
166 Change the backup working directory to \fBdir\&.\fR If the mount point was specified with \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 \fBdir\fR can be a shell style wildcards\&.
170 Like the \fBcd\fR command but allow regular expression\&.
174 Display the \fBamrecover\fR working directory\&. Files will be restored under this directory, relative to the backed up filesystem\&.
178 Change the \fBamrecover\fR working directory to \fBpath\fR\&.
182 List the contents of the current backup working directory\&. See the description of the \fBsetdate\fR command for how the view of the directory is built up\&. The backup date is shown for each file\&.
185 \fBadd item1 item2 \&.\&.\&.\fR
186 Add the specified files or directories to the restore list\&. Each item may have shell style wildcards\&.
189 \fBaddx item1 item2 \&.\&.\&.\fR
190 Add the specified files or directories to the restore list\&. Each item may be a regular expression\&.
193 \fBdelete item1 item2 \&.\&.\&.\fR
194 Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list\&. Each item may have shell style wildcards\&.
197 \fBdeletex item1 item2 \&.\&.\&.\fR
198 Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list\&. Each item may be a regular expression\&.
202 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 \fBAMANDA\fR tapes with \fBamrestore\fR\&.
206 Clear the restore list\&.
210 Close the connection to the index server and exit\&.
214 Close the connection to the index server and exit\&.
218 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 \fBlpwd\fR to display the local working directory, and \fBlcd\fR to change it\&.
222 Display a brief list of these commands\&.
227 The following shows the recovery of an old \fBsyslog\fR file\&.
232 syslog\&.7: No such file or directory
234 AMRECOVER Version 2\&.4\&.2\&. Contacting server on oops \&.\&.\&.
235 220 oops \fBAMANDA\fR index server (2\&.4\&.2) ready\&.
236 Setting restore date to today (1997\-12\-09)
237 200 Working date set to 1997\-12\-09\&.
238 200 Config set to daily\&.
239 200 Dump host set to this\-host\&.some\&.org\&.
240 $CWD '/var/log' is on disk '/var' mounted at '/var'\&.
241 200 Disk set to /var\&.
243 WARNING: not on root of selected filesystem, check man\-page!
245 1997\-12\-09 daemon\&.log
248 1997\-12\-08 sysidconfig\&.log
249 1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.0
250 1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.1
251 1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.2
252 1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.3
253 1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.4
254 1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.5
255 1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.6
256 1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.7
257 amrecover> add syslog\&.7
258 Added /log/syslog\&.7
261 amrecover> lcd \&.\&.
265 Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192\&.168\&.0\&.10
267 The following tapes are needed: DMP014
269 Restoring files into directory /var
274 set owner/mode for '\&.'? [yn] n
279 \-rw\-r\-\-r\-\- 1 root other 12678 Oct 14 16:36 syslog\&.7
283 If you do not want to overwrite existing files, create a subdirectory to run \fBamrecover\fR from and then move the restored files afterward\&.
287 # (umask 077 ; mkdir \&.restore)
290 AMRECOVER Version 2\&.4\&.2\&. Contacting server on oops \&.\&.\&.
296 amrecover> add syslog\&.7
297 Added /log/syslog\&.7
302 Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192\&.168\&.0\&.10
306 # mv \-i log/syslog\&.7 \&.\&./log/syslog\&.7\-restored
312 If you need to run \fBamrestore\fR by hand instead of letting \fBamrecover\fR control it, use the \fBlist\fR command after browsing to display the needed tapes\&.
317 AMRECOVER Version 2\&.4\&.2\&. Contacting server on oops \&.\&.\&.
321 amrecover> add syslog syslog\&.6 syslog\&.7
323 Added /log/syslog\&.6
324 Added /log/syslog\&.7
326 TAPE DMP014 LEVEL 0 DATE 1997\-12\-08
329 TAPE DMP015 LEVEL 1 DATE 1997\-12\-09
335 The \fBhistory\fR 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\&.
338 Tape file position zero is a label\&. The first backup image is in file position one\&.
343 AMRECOVER Version 2\&.4\&.2\&. Contacting server on oops \&.\&.\&.
346 200\- Dump history for config "daily" host "this\-host\&.some\&.org" disk "/var"
347 201\- 1997\-12\-09 1 DMP015 9
348 201\- 1997\-12\-08 1 DMP014 11
349 201\- 1997\-12\-07 0 DMP013 22
350 201\- 1997\-12\-06 1 DMP012 16
351 201\- 1997\-12\-05 1 DMP011 9
352 201\- 1997\-12\-04 0 DMP010 11
353 201\- 1997\-12\-03 1 DMP009 7
354 201\- 1997\-12\-02 1 DMP008 7
355 201\- 1997\-12\-01 1 DMP007 9
356 201\- 1997\-11\-30 1 DMP006 6
364 \fBPAGER\fR The \fBls\fR and \fBlist\fR commands will use $PAGER to display the file lists\&. Defaults to \fBmore\fR if PAGER is not set\&.
369 Alan M\&. McIvor <alan@kauri\&.auck\&.irl\&.cri\&.nz> : Original text
372 Stefan G\&. Weichinger, <sgw@amanda\&.org>, maintainer of the \fBAMANDA\fR\-documentation: XML\-conversion
377 \fBamanda\fR(8), \fBamrestore\fR(8), \fBreadline\fR(3)