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<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>amanda.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>amanda.conf</refname>
<refpurpose>Main configuration file for &A;, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
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<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>&amconf; is the main configuration file for &A;. This manpage lists the
relevant sections and parameters of this file for quick reference.</para> 
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>PARAMETERS</title>

<para>There are a number of configuration parameters that control the
behavior of the &A; programs.
All have default values,
so you need not specify the parameter in
<emphasis remap='B'>amanda.conf</emphasis>
if the default is suitable.</para>

<para>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.</para>

<para>Keywords are case insensitive, i.e.
<emphasis remap='B'>mailto</emphasis>
and
<emphasis remap='B'>MailTo</emphasis>
are treated the same.</para>

<para>Integer arguments may have one of the following (case insensitive) suffixes,
some of which have a multiplier effect:</para>

<refsect2><title>POSSIBLE SUFFIXES</title>

<variablelist remap='TP'>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>b byte bytes</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Some number of bytes.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>bps</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Some number of bytes per second.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>k kb kbyte kbytes kilobyte kilobytes</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Some number of kilobytes (bytes*1024).</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>kps kbps</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Some number of kilobytes per second (bytes*1024).</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>m mb meg mbyte mbytes megabyte megabytes</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Some number of megabytes (bytes*1024*1024).</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>mps mbps</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Some number of megabytes per second (bytes*1024*1024).</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>g gb gbyte gbytes gigabyte gigabytes</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Some number of gigabytes (bytes*1024*1024*1024).</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>tape tapes</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Some number of tapes.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>day days</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Some number of days.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>week weeks</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Some number of weeks (days*7).</para>

<note>The value
<emphasis remap='B'>inf</emphasis>
may be used in most places where an integer is expected
to mean an infinite amount.

<para>Boolean arguments may have any of the values
<emphasis remap='B'>y</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>yes</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>t</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>true</emphasis>
or
<emphasis remap='B'>on</emphasis>
to indicate a true state, or
<emphasis remap='B'>n</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>no</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>f</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>false</emphasis>
or
<emphasis remap='B'>off</emphasis>
to indicate a false state.
If no argument is given,
<emphasis remap='B'>true</emphasis>
is assumed.
</para>
</note>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>

<refsect2>
<title>PARAMETERS</title>

<variablelist remap='TP'>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>org</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>daily</emphasis>.
A descriptive name for the configuration.
This string appears in the Subject line of mail reports.
Each &A; configuration should have a different string to keep
mail reports distinct.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>mailto</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>operators</emphasis>.
A space separated list of recipients for mail reports.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>dumpcycle</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>10 days</emphasis>.
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.</para>
<note>This parameter may also be set in a specific
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
(see below).
This value sets the default for all
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>s
so must appear in
<emphasis remap='B'>amanda.conf</emphasis>
before any
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>s
are defined.</note>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>runspercycle</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>same as dumpcycle</emphasis>.
The number of amdump runs in 
<emphasis remap='B'>dumpcycle</emphasis>
days.
A value of 0 means the same value as 
<emphasis remap='B'>dumpcycle</emphasis>.
A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the
<emphasis remap='I'>tapelist</emphasis>
file, 
which is the number of tapes used in the last 
<emphasis remap='B'>dumpcycle</emphasis>
days / 
<emphasis remap='B'>runtapes</emphasis>.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>tapecycle</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>15 tapes</emphasis>.
Typically tapes are used by &A; in an ordered rotation. The <emphasis remap='B'>tapecycle</emphasis> 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 <emphasis remap='B'>dumpcycle</emphasis> parameter). 
</para>
<para>
This is calculated by multiplying the number of &amdump; runs per dump cycle
(<emphasis remap='B'>runspercycle</emphasis> parameter) times the number of tapes used per run 
(<emphasis remap='B'>runtapes</emphasis> parameter). Typically two to four times this calculated number of tapes are in rotation.
While &A; is always willing to use a new tape in its rotation, it refuses to reuse a tape until at 
least '<emphasis remap='B'>tapecycle</emphasis> -1' number of other tapes have been used. 
</para>
<para>
It is considered good administrative practice to set the <emphasis remap='B'>tapecycle</emphasis> 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.
</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>label_new_tapes</emphasis>
        <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
    <para>Default: not set.
When set, this directive will cause &A; to automatically write an &A;
tape label to any blank tape she encounters. This option is DANGEROUS 
because when set, &A; will ERASE any non-&A; tapes you may have, and may 
also ERASE any near-failing tapes. Use with caution.</para>
<para>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: 
<markup>label_new_tapes "DailySet1-%%%"</markup>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
=======
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>label_new_tapes</emphasis>
        <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
    <para>Default: not set.
When set, this directive will cause &A; to automatically write an Amanda 
tape label to any black tape she encounters. This option is DANGEROUS 
because when set, &A; will ERASE any non-&A; tapes you may have, and may 
also ERASE any near-failing tapes. Use with caution.</para>
<para>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: 
<markup>label_new_tapes "DailySet1-%%%"</markup>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>dumpuser</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>amanda</emphasis>.
The login name &A; uses to run the backups.
The backup client hosts must allow access
from the tape server host as this user via
<markup>.rhosts</markup>
or
<markup>.amandahosts</markup>,
depending on how the &A; software was built.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>printer</emphasis> string</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Printer to use when doing tape labels.
See the
<emphasis remap='B'>lbl-templ</emphasis>
<emphasis remap='B'>tapetype</emphasis>
option.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>tapedev</emphasis> string</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<filename>null:</filename>.
The path name of the non-rewinding tape device.
Non-rewinding tape device names often have an 'n' in the name,
e.g.
<filename>/dev/rmt/0mn</filename>,
however this is operating system specific and you should consult
that documentation for detailed naming information.</para>

<para>If a tape changer is configured
(see the
<emphasis remap='B'>tpchanger</emphasis>
option), this option might not be used.</para>

<para>If the
<emphasis remap='B'>null</emphasis>
output driver is selected
(see the section OUTPUT DRIVERS in the 
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>amanda</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> 
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
<emphasis remap='B'>record</emphasis>
option set to
<emphasis remap='I'>no</emphasis>.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>rawtapedev</emphasis> string</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<filename>null:</filename>.
The path name of the raw tape device.
This is only used if &A; is compiled for Linux machines with floppy tapes
and is needed for QIC volume table operations.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>tpchanger</emphasis> string</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>none</emphasis>.
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.</para>
<para>If a tape changer is configured, choose one of the changer scripts
(e.g.  <emphasis remap='B'>chg-scsi</emphasis>)
and enter that here.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>changerdev</emphasis> string</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<filename>/dev/null</filename>.
A tape changer configuration parameter.
Usage depends on the particular changer defined with the
<emphasis remap='B'>tpchanger</emphasis>
option.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>changerfile</emphasis> string</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<filename>/usr/adm/amanda/log/changer-status</filename>.
A tape changer configuration parameter.
Usage depends on the particular changer defined with the
<emphasis remap='B'>tpchanger</emphasis>
option.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>runtapes</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>1</literal>.
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.</para>
<para>If a tape changer is configured, this may be set larger than one to
let &A; write to more than one tape.</para>
<para>Note that this is an upper bound on the number of tapes,
and &A; may use less.</para>
<para>Also note that as of this release, &A; does not support true tape overflow.
When it reaches the end of one tape,
the backup image &A; was processing starts over again on the next tape.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>maxdumpsize</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>runtapes</emphasis>*<emphasis remap='I'>tape_length</emphasis>.
Maximum number of bytes the planner will schedule for a run.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>taperalgo</emphasis> [first|firstfit|largest|largestfit|smallest|last]</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>first</emphasis>.
The algorithm used to choose which dump image to send to the taper.</para>
  <!-- .RS -->
    <variablelist remap='TP'>
      <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis remap='B'>first</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
<para>First in, first out.</para>
      </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis remap='B'>firstfit</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
<para>The first dump image that will fit on the current tape.</para>
      </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis remap='B'>largest</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
<para>The largest dump image.</para>
      </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis remap='B'>largestfit</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
<para>The largest dump image that will fit on the current tape.</para>
      </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis remap='B'>smallest</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
<para>The smallest dump image.</para>
      </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
      <term><emphasis remap='B'>last</emphasis></term>
      <listitem>
<para>Last in, first out.</para>
      </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis remap='B'>labelstr</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>.*</emphasis>.
The tape label constraint regular expression.
All tape labels generated (see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>amlabel</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
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, &quot;DAILY[0-9][0-9]*&quot; vs.
&quot;ARCHIVE[0-9][0-9]*&quot;)
to avoid overwriting each other's tapes.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>tapetype</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>EXABYTE</emphasis>.
The type of tape drive associated with
<emphasis remap='B'>tapedev</emphasis>
or
<emphasis remap='B'>tpchanger</emphasis>.
This refers to one of the defined <emphasis remap='B'>tapetype</emphasis>s
in the config file (see below), which specify various tape parameters,
like the
<emphasis remap='B'>length</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>filemark</emphasis>
size, and
<emphasis remap='B'>speed</emphasis>
of the tape media and device.</para>
<para>First character of a <emphasis remap='B'>tapetype</emphasis> string must
be an alphabetic character</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>ctimeout</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>30 seconds</emphasis>.
Maximum amount of time that
<emphasis remap='B'>amcheck</emphasis>
will wait for each client host.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>dtimeout</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>1800 seconds</emphasis>.
Amount of idle time per disk on a given client that a
<emphasis remap='B'>dumper</emphasis>
running from within
<command>amdump</command>
will wait before it fails with a data timeout error.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>etimeout</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>300 seconds</emphasis>.
Amount of time per disk on a given client that the
<emphasis remap='B'>planner</emphasis>
step of
<command>amdump</command>
will wait to get the dump size estimates.
For instance, with the default of 300 seconds and four disks on client A, 
<emphasis remap='B'>planner</emphasis>
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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>netusage</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>300 Kbps</emphasis>.
The maximum network bandwidth allocated to &A;, in Kbytes per second.
See also the
<emphasis remap='B'>interface</emphasis>
section.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>inparallel</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>10</literal>.
The maximum number of backups that &A; will attempt to run in parallel.
&A; 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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>displayunit</emphasis> &quot;k|m|g|t&quot;</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>&quot;k&quot;</literal>.
The unit used to print many numbers, k=kilo, m=mega, g=giga, t=tera.
</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>dumporder</emphasis> string</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>tttTTTTTTT</emphasis>.
The priority order of each dumper:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>s: smallest size</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>S: largest size</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>t: smallest time</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>T: largest time</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>b: smallest bandwidth</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>B: largest bandwidth</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>maxdumps</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>1</literal>.
The maximum number of backups from a single host that &A; will
attempt to run in parallel. See also the
<emphasis remap='B'>inparallel</emphasis>
option.</para>

<para>Note that this parameter may also be set in a specific
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
(see below).
This value sets the default for all
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>s
so must appear in
<emphasis remap='B'>amanda.conf</emphasis>
before any
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>s
are defined.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>bumpsize</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>10 Mbytes</emphasis>.
The minimum savings required to trigger an automatic
bump from one incremental level to the next, expressed as size.
If &A; 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 
<emphasis>bumppercent</emphasis> is set to 0.
</para>
<para>
The global setting of this parameter can be overwritten inside of a  
dumptype-definition.  
</para>
<para>
See also the options 
<emphasis remap='B'>bumppercent</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpmult</emphasis> and
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpdays</emphasis>.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>bumppercent</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>0 percent</emphasis>.
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 &A; determines that the next higher backup level
will be this much smaller than the current level,
it will do the next level.
</para>
<para>
If this parameter is set to 0, the value of the
parameter <emphasis>bumpsize</emphasis> is used to trigger bumping.
</para>
<para>
The global setting of this parameter can be overwritten inside of a  
dumptype-definition.  
</para>
<para>
See also the options 
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpsize</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpmult</emphasis> and
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpdays</emphasis>.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>bumpmult</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> float</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>1.5</literal>.
The bump size multiplier.
&A; multiplies
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpsize</emphasis>
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
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpsize</emphasis>
and
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpmult</emphasis>
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.</para>
<para>
The global setting of this parameter can be overwritten inside of a  
dumptype-definition.  
</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>bumpdays</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>2 days</emphasis>.
To insure redundancy in the dumps, &A; keeps filesystems at the
same incremental level for at least
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpdays</emphasis>
days, even if the other bump threshold criteria are met.</para>
<para>
The global setting of this parameter can be overwritten inside of a  
dumptype-definition.  
</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>diskfile</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>disklist</emphasis>.
The file name for the
<emphasis remap='I'>disklist</emphasis>
file holding client hosts, disks and other client dumping information.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>infofile</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<filename>/usr/adm/amanda/curinfo</filename>.
The file or directory name for the historical information database.
If &A; 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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>logdir</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<filename>/usr/adm/amanda</filename>.
The directory for the
<command>amdump</command>
and
<emphasis remap='B'>log</emphasis>
files.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>indexdir</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default
<filename>/usr/adm/amanda/index</filename>.
The directory where index files (backup image catalogues) are stored.
Index files are
only generated for filesystems whose
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
has the
<emphasis remap='B'>index</emphasis>
option enabled.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>tapelist</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>tapelist</emphasis>.
The file name for the active
<emphasis remap='I'>tapelist</emphasis>
file.
&A; maintains this file with information about the active set of tapes.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>tapebufs</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>20</literal>.
The number of buffers used by the
<emphasis remap='B'>taper</emphasis>
process run by
<command>amdump</command>
and
<emphasis remap='B'>amflush</emphasis>
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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>reserve</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> number</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>100</literal>.
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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>autoflush</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> bool</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>off</emphasis>.
Whether an amdump run will flush the dumps from holding disk to tape.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>amrecover_do_fsf</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> bool</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>off</emphasis>.
Amrecover will call amrestore with the -f flag for faster positioning of the tape.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>amrecover_check_label</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> bool</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>off</emphasis>.
Amrecover will call amrestore with the -l flag to check the label.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>amrecover_changer</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default: ''.
Amrecover will use the changer if you use 'settape &lt;string&gt;' and that string
is the same as the amrecover_changer setting.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>columnspec</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Defines the width of columns <emphasis remap='B'>amreport</emphasis>
should use.
<emphasis remap='I'>String</emphasis>
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:</para>
  
  <itemizedlist>
  <listitem>
      <para>the name of the column, which may be:</para>

        <itemizedlist>
        <listitem><para>Compress (compression ratio)</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Disk (client disk name)</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>DumpRate (dump rate in KBytes/sec)</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>DumpTime (total dump time in hours:minutes)</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>HostName (client host name)</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Level (dump level)</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>OrigKB (original image size in KBytes)</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>OutKB (output image size in KBytes)</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>TapeRate (tape writing rate in KBytes/sec)</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>TapeTime (total tape time in hours:minutes)</para></listitem>
        </itemizedlist>

  </listitem>

  <listitem>
<para>the amount of space to display before the column (used to get whitespace between columns).</para>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
<para>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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>

<para>Here is an example:</para>

<programlisting>
<para>columnspec &quot;Disk=1:18,HostName=0:10,OutKB=1:7&quot;</para>
</programlisting>
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.
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>includefile</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>none</emphasis>.
The name of an &A; configuration file to include within the current file.
Useful for sharing dumptypes, tapetypes and interface definitions among several configurations.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>HOLDINGDISK SECTION</title>
<para>The <emphasis remap='B'>amanda.conf</emphasis>
file may define one or more holding disks used as buffers to hold
backup images before they are written to tape.
The syntax is:</para>

<programlisting>
holdingdisk <emphasis remap='I'>name</emphasis> {
    <emphasis remap='I'>holdingdisk-option</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'>holdingdisk-value</emphasis>
    <literal>...</literal>
}</programlisting>

<para><emphasis remap='I'>Name</emphasis>
is a logical name for this holding disk.</para>

<para>The options and values are:</para>

<variablelist remap='TP'>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>comment</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>none</emphasis>.
A comment string describing this holding disk.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>directory</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> disk</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<filename>/dumps/amanda</filename>.
The path to this holding area.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>use</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>0 Gb</emphasis>.
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, &A; will use all available space minus that value.
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>chunksize</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>1 Gb</emphasis>.
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, &A; 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 &A; 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.
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>DUMPTYPE SECTION</title>
<para>The &amconf; 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.</para>

<para>A set of backup options are entered in a
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
section, which looks like this:</para>

<programlisting>
define dumptype <emphasis remap='I'>name</emphasis> {
    <emphasis remap='I'>dumptype-option</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'>dumptype-value</emphasis>
    <literal>...</literal>
}
</programlisting>

<para><emphasis remap='I'>Name</emphasis>
is the name of this set of backup options.
It is referenced from the &disklist; file.</para>

<para>Some of the options in a
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
section are the same as those in the main part of &amconf;.
The main option value is used to set the default for all
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
sections. For instance, setting
<emphasis remap='B'>dumpcycle</emphasis>
to 50 in the main part of the config file causes all following
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
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
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>s
are defined.</para>

<para>The dumptype options and values are:</para>

<variablelist remap='TP'>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>auth</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>bsd</emphasis>.
Type of authorization to perform between tape server and backup client hosts.</para>
<para><emphasis remap='B'>krb4</emphasis> to use Kerberos-IV
authorization.</para>
<para><emphasis remap='B'>krb5</emphasis> to use Kerberos-V
authorization.</para>
<para><emphasis remap='B'>ssh</emphasis> to use OpenSSH
authorization.</para>

  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

<!-- bumping parameters yanked from the global section above -->

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>bumpsize</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>10 Mbytes</emphasis>.
The minimum savings required to trigger an automatic
bump from one incremental level to the next, expressed as size.
If &A; 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 
<emphasis>bumppercent</emphasis> is set to 0.
</para>
<para>
See also the options 
<emphasis remap='B'>bumppercent</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpmult</emphasis> and
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpdays</emphasis>.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>bumppercent</emphasis> int</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>0 percent</emphasis>.
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 &A; determines that the next higher backup level
will be this much smaller than the current level,
it will do the next level.
</para>
<para>
If this parameter is set to 0, the value of the
parameter <emphasis>bumpsize</emphasis> is used to trigger bumping.
</para>
<para>
See also the options 
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpsize</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpmult</emphasis> and
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpdays</emphasis>.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>bumpmult</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> float</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>1.5</literal>.
The bump size multiplier.
&A; multiplies
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpsize</emphasis>
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
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpsize</emphasis>
and
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpmult</emphasis>
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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>bumpdays</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>2 days</emphasis>.
To insure redundancy in the dumps, &A; keeps filesystems at the
same incremental level for at least
<emphasis remap='B'>bumpdays</emphasis>
days, even if the other bump threshold criteria are met.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>comment</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>none</emphasis>.
A comment string describing this set of backup options.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>comprate</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'>float</emphasis> [, <emphasis remap='I'>float</emphasis> ]</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>0.50</literal>,
<literal>0.50</literal>.
The expected full and incremental compression factor for dumps.
It is only used if &A; 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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>compress [client|server]</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>client fast</emphasis>.
If &A; 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.</para>

<para>For either type of compression, &A; also allows the selection
of three styles of compression.
<emphasis remap='B'>Best</emphasis>
is the best compression available, often at the expense of CPU overhead.
<emphasis remap='B'>Fast</emphasis>
is often not as good a compression as
<emphasis remap='B'>best</emphasis>,
but usually less CPU overhead. Or to specify <emphasis remap='B'>Custom</emphasis>
to use your own compression method. (See dumptype custom-compress in example/amanda.conf for reference)</para>



<para>So the <emphasis remap='B'>compress</emphasis> options line may be one of:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>compress none</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>compress [client] fast</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>compress [client] best</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>compress client custom</para>
<para>Specify client_custom_compress &quot;PROG&quot;</para>
<para>PROG must not contain white space and it must accept -d for uncompress.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>compress server fast</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>compress server best</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>compress server custom</para>
<para>Specify server_custom_compress &quot;PROG&quot;</para>
<para>PROG must not contain white space and it must accept -d for uncompress.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>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 <emphasis remap='B'>mt</emphasis> option), &A; (software) compression should be disabled.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>dumpcycle</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default: <emphasis remap='I'>10 days</emphasis>.
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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>encrypt [none|client|server]</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default: <emphasis remap='I'>none</emphasis>.
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.</para>

<para>So the <emphasis remap='B'>encrypt</emphasis> options line may be one
            of:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>encrypt none</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>encrypt client</para>
<para>Specify client_encrypt &quot;PROG&quot;</para>
<para>PROG must not contain white space.</para>
<para>Specify client_decrypt_option &quot;decryption-parameter&quot; Default: &quot;-d&quot;</para>
<para>decryption-parameter must not contain white space.</para>
<para>(See dumptype encrypt-fast in example/amanda.conf for reference)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>encrypt server</para>
<para>Specify server_encrypt &quot;PROG&quot;</para>
<para>PROG must not contain white space.</para>
<para>Specify server_decrypt_option &quot;decryption-parameter&quot; Default: &quot;-d&quot;</para>
<para>decryption-parameter must not contain white space.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<para>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.
<emphasis remap='I'>amcrypt</emphasis> which is a wrapper of
            <emphasis remap='I'>aespipe</emphasis> is provided as a reference
                encryption program.</para>
</varlistentry>


  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>estimate</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'>client|calcsize|server</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default: <emphasis remap='I'>client</emphasis>.
Determine the way &A; does it's estimate.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>client:</para>
<para>
Use the same program as the dumping program, this is the most accurate way to do estimates, but it can take a long time.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>calcsize:</para>
<para>Use a faster program to do estimates, but the result is less accurate.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>server:</para>
<para>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.
</para>
  </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>exclude</emphasis> [ <emphasis remap='I'>list|file</emphasis> ][[optional][ <emphasis remap='I'>append</emphasis> ][ <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis> ]+]</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>file</emphasis>.
There are two exclude lists,
<emphasis remap='B'>exclude file</emphasis>
and
<emphasis remap='B'>exclude list.</emphasis>
With
<emphasis remap='B'>exclude file</emphasis>
, the
<emphasis remap='I'>string</emphasis>
is a &gnutar; exclude expression. With
<emphasis remap='B'>exclude list</emphasis>
, the
<emphasis remap='I'>string</emphasis>
is a file name on the client containing &gnutar; exclude expressions.
The path to the specified exclude list file, if present (see description of
'optional' below), must be readable by the &A; user.</para>

<para>All exclude expressions are concatenated in one file and passed to &gnutar;
as an <option>--exclude-from</option> argument.</para>

<para>Exclude expressions must always be specified as relative to the
head directory of the DLE.</para>

<para>With the
<emphasis remap='B'>append</emphasis> keyword, the
<emphasis remap='I'>string</emphasis> is appended to the current list, without it, the
<emphasis remap='I'>string</emphasis> overwrites the list.</para>

<para>If <emphasis remap='B'>optional</emphasis>
is specified for <emphasis remap='B'>exclude list</emphasis>,
then amcheck will not complain if the file doesn't exist or is not readable.</para>

<para>For <emphasis remap='B'>exclude list</emphasis>,
if the file name is relative, the disk name being backed up is prepended.
So if this is entered:</para>

<programlisting>
    exclude list &quot;.amanda.excludes&quot;
</programlisting>

<para>the actual file used would be
<filename>/var/.amanda.excludes</filename>
for a backup of <filename>/var</filename>,
<filename>/usr/local/.amanda.excludes</filename> for a backup of
<filename>/usr/local</filename>, and so on.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>holdingdisk</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> boolean</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>yes</emphasis>.
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 &A;
is backing up, that file system should refer to a dumptype with
<emphasis remap='B'>holdingdisk</emphasis>
set to
<emphasis remap='I'>no</emphasis>
to avoid backing up the holding disk into itself.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>ignore</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> boolean</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>no</emphasis>.
Whether disks associated with this backup type should be backed up or not.
This option is useful when the
<emphasis remap='I'>disklist</emphasis>
file is shared among several configurations,
some of which should not back up all the listed file systems.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>include</emphasis> [ <emphasis remap='I'>list|file</emphasis> ][[optional][ <emphasis remap='I'>append</emphasis> ][ <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis> ]+]</term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>file</emphasis>
&quot;.&quot;.
There are two include lists,
<emphasis remap='B'>include file</emphasis>
and
<emphasis remap='B'>include list.</emphasis>
With
<emphasis remap='B'>include file</emphasis>
, the
<emphasis remap='I'>string</emphasis>
is a glob expression. With
<emphasis remap='B'>include list</emphasis>
, the
<emphasis remap='I'>string</emphasis>
is a file name on the client containing glob expressions.</para>

<para>All include expressions are expanded by &A;, concatenated in one file and passed to &gnutar; as a
<option>--files-from</option> argument. They must start with &quot;./&quot; and contain no other &quot;/&quot;.</para>

<para>Include expressions must always be specified as relative to the
head directory of the DLE.</para>

<note>For globbing to work at all, even the limited single level, 
the top level directory of the DLE must be readable by the &A; user.</note>

<para>With the <emphasis remap='B'>append</emphasis> keyword, the
<emphasis remap='I'>string</emphasis> is appended to the current list, without it, the
<emphasis remap='I'>string</emphasis> overwrites the list.</para>

<para>If
<emphasis remap='B'>optional</emphasis> is specified for
<emphasis remap='B'>include list,</emphasis> then amcheck will not complain if the file 
doesn't exist or is not readable.</para>

<para>For <emphasis remap='B'>include list</emphasis>,
If the file name is relative, the disk name being backed up is prepended.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>index</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> boolean</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default: <emphasis remap='I'>no</emphasis>.
Whether an index (catalogue) of the backup should be generated and saved in
<emphasis remap='B'>indexdir</emphasis>.
These catalogues are used by the <emphasis remap='B'>amrecover</emphasis> utility.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>kencrypt</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> boolean</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>no</emphasis>.
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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>maxdumps</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>1</literal>.
The maximum number of backups from a single host that &A; will attempt to run in parallel.
See also the main section parameter <emphasis remap='B'>inparallel</emphasis>.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>maxpromoteday</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<literal>10000</literal>.
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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>priority</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default: <emphasis remap='I'>medium</emphasis>.
When there is no tape to write to, &A; 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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>program</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>DUMP</emphasis>.
The type of backup to perform. Valid values are
<emphasis remap='B'>DUMP</emphasis>
for the native operating system backup program, and
<emphasis remap='B'>GNUTAR</emphasis>
to use &gnutar; or to do PC backups using Samba.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>record</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> boolean</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>yes</emphasis>.
Whether to ask the backup program to update its database (e.g. <filename>/etc/dumpdates</filename>
for DUMP or <filename>/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists</filename> for GNUTAR) of time stamps.
This is normally enabled for daily backups and turned off for periodic archival runs.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>skip-full</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> boolean</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>no</emphasis>. If <emphasis remap='I'>true</emphasis> and
<emphasis remap='B'>planner</emphasis> 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 &A; only schedules 
level 1 incrementals in this configuration; this is probably a bug.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>skip-incr</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> boolean</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>no</emphasis>. If <emphasis remap='I'>true</emphasis> and
<emphasis remap='B'>planner</emphasis> has scheduled an incremental backup, these disks will be skipped.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>starttime</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>none</emphasis>.
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
<literal>1830</literal>.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>strategy</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
  <para>Default: <emphasis remap='I'>standard</emphasis>.
  Strategy to use when planning what level of backup to run next. Values are:</para>

  <variablelist remap='TP'>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>standard</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
  <para>The standard &A; schedule.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>nofull</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
  <para>Never do full backups, only level 1 incrementals.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>noinc</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
  <para>Never do incremental backups, only full dumps.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>skip</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
  <para>Never do backups (useful when sharing the <emphasis remap='I'>disklist</emphasis> file).</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>incronly</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
  <para>Only do incremental dumps. <command>amadmin force</command> should be used to tell
  &A; 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 &A; will perform full backups with this configuration,
  which is probably a bug.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>tape_splitsize</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>none</emphasis>.
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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>split_diskbuffer</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>none</emphasis>.
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.
</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>fallback_splitsize</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>10M</emphasis>.
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.
</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>The following <emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis> entries are predefined by &A;:</para>

<programlisting remap='.nf'>
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
} 
</programlisting>

<para>In addition to options in a
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
section, one or more other
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
names may be entered, which make this
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
inherit options from other previously defined
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>s.
For instance, two sections might be the same except for the
<emphasis remap='B'>record</emphasis> option:</para>

<programlisting remap='.nf'>
define dumptype normal {
    comment &quot;Normal backup, no compression, do indexing&quot;
    no-compress
    index yes
    maxdumps 2
}
define dumptype testing {
    comment &quot;Test backup, no compression, do indexing, no recording&quot;
    normal
    record no
}
</programlisting>

<para>&A; provides a
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>
named
<emphasis remap='I'>global</emphasis>
in the sample
<emphasis remap='B'>amanda.conf</emphasis>
file that all
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>s
should reference.
This provides an easy place to make changes that will affect every
<emphasis remap='B'>dumptype</emphasis>.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>TAPETYPE SECTION</title>
<para>The <emphasis remap='B'>amanda.conf</emphasis>
file may define multiple types of tape media and devices.
The information is entered in a
<emphasis remap='B'>tapetype</emphasis>
section, which looks like this in the config file:</para>

<programlisting>
define tapetype <emphasis remap='I'>name</emphasis> {
    <emphasis remap='I'>tapetype-option</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'>tapetype-value</emphasis>
    <literal>...</literal>
}
</programlisting>

<para><emphasis remap='I'>Name</emphasis>
is the name of this type of tape medium/device.
It is referenced from the
<emphasis remap='B'>tapetype</emphasis>
option in the main part of the config file.</para>

<para>The tapetype options and values are:</para>
<variablelist remap='TP'>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>comment</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>none</emphasis>.
A comment string describing this set of tape information.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>filemark</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>1000 bytes</emphasis>.
How large a file mark (tape mark) is, measured in bytes.
If the size is only known in some linear measurement (e.g. inches),
convert it to bytes using the device density.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>length</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>2000 kbytes</emphasis>. How much data will fit on a tape.</para>

<para>Note that this value is only used by &A; to schedule which backups will be run.
Once the backups start, &A; will continue to write to a tape until it gets an error, 
regardless of what value is entered for <emphasis remap='B'>length</emphasis>
(but see the section OUTPUT DRIVERS in the 
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>amanda</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> 
manpage for exceptions).
 </para> </listitem>
  </varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis remap='B'>blocksize</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>32</emphasis>.
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 &A; was compiled with the configure option
--with-maxtapeblocksize=N set with &quot;N&quot; greater than 32 during
&configure;.
</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>file-pad</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> boolean</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>true</emphasis>.
If true, every record, including the last one in the file, will have the same length.
This matches the way &A; wrote tapes prior to the availability of this parameter.
It may also be useful on devices that only support a fixed blocksize.</para>

<para>Note that the last record on the tape probably includes trailing
null byte padding, which will be passed back to
<emphasis remap='B'>gzip</emphasis>,
<emphasis remap='B'>compress</emphasis>
or the restore program. Most programs just ignore this (although possibly with a warning).</para>

<para>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.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>speed</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>200 bps</emphasis>.
How fast the drive will accept data, in bytes per second.
This parameter is NOT currently used by &A;.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>lbl-templ</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>A PostScript template file used by
<emphasis remap='B'>amreport</emphasis>
to generate labels. Several sample files are provided with the &A; sources in the
<emphasis remap='I'>example</emphasis> directory.
See the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>amreport</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
man page for more information.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>In addition to options, another
<emphasis remap='B'>tapetype</emphasis>
name may be entered, which makes this
<emphasis remap='B'>tapetype</emphasis>
inherit options from another
<emphasis remap='B'>tapetype</emphasis>.
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:</para>

<programlisting remap='.nf'>
define tapetype DLT4000-III {
    comment &quot;DLT4000 tape drives with Compact-III tapes&quot;
    length 12500 mbytes         # 10 Gig tapes with some compression
    filemark 2000 kbytes
    speed 1536 kps
}
define tapetype DLT4000-IV {
    DLT4000-III
    comment &quot;DLT4000 tape drives with Compact-IV tapes&quot;
    length 25000 mbytes         # 20 Gig tapes with some compression
}
</programlisting>

<!-- If anybody has read this, where do all those stupid 
     pseudo-duplicate FOM-tapetype-entries come from?? 
        - sgw, Jan. 2005 
-->

</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>INTERFACE SECTION</title>
<para>The
<emphasis remap='B'>amanda.conf</emphasis>
file may define multiple types of network interfaces.
The information is entered in an <emphasis remap='B'>interface</emphasis>
section, which looks like this:</para>

<programlisting>
define interface <emphasis remap='I'>name</emphasis> {
    <emphasis remap='I'>interface-option</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'>interface-value</emphasis>
    <literal>...</literal>
}
</programlisting>

<para><emphasis remap='I'>name</emphasis>
is the name of this type of network interface. It is referenced from the
<emphasis remap='I'>disklist</emphasis> file.</para>

<para>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 &A;.
&A; 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, &A; will use as much of the network as it can
leaving throttling up to the operating system and network hardware.</para>

<para>The interface options and values are:</para>
<variablelist remap='TP'>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>comment</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> string</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>none</emphasis>.
A comment string describing this set of network information.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>use</emphasis> <emphasis remap='I'> int</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Default:
<emphasis remap='I'>300 Kbps</emphasis>.
The speed of the interface in Kbytes per second.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>In addition to options, another
<emphasis remap='B'>interface</emphasis>
name may be entered, which makes this
<emphasis remap='B'>interface</emphasis>
inherit options from another
<emphasis remap='B'>interface</emphasis>.
At the moment, this is of little use.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>AUTHOR</title>
<para>James da Silva, &email.jds;: Original text</para>
<para>&maintainer.sgw;: XML-conversion, major update, splitting</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1><title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>amanda</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>amcrypt</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>aespipe</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>