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-Name
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-amrecover \14 Amanda index database browser
-
-Synopsis
-
-amrecover [-C config] [-s index-server] [-t tape-server] [-d tape-device] [ -
-o configoption]...
-
-DESCRIPTION
-
-Amrecover browses the database of Amanda index files to determine which tapes
-contain files to recover. Furthermore, it is able to recover files.
-In order to restore files in place, you must invoke amrecover from the root of
-the backed up filesystem, or use lcd 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.
-Amrecover will read the amanda-client.conf file and the config/amanda-
-client.conf file.
-See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.
-
-OPTIONS
-
-
-Note
-
-The Default values are those set at compile-time. Use amrestore to recover
-client-encrypted or client-custom-compressed tapes.
-
-
- [ -C ] config
- Amanda configuration.
-
- -s index-server
- Host that runs the index daemon.
-
- -t tape-server
- Host that runs the tape server daemon.
-
- -d tape-device
- Tape device to use on the tape server host.
-
- -o clientconfigoption
- See the "CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE" section in amanda(8).
-
-
-COMMANDS
-
-Amrecover 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 amrecover.
-The purpose of browsing the database is to build up a restore list of files to
-be extracted from the backup system. The following commands are available:
-
-
- sethost hostname
- Specifies which host to look at backup files for (default: the local
- host).
-
- setdate YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM[-SS] | YYYY-MM-DD
- Set the restore time (default: now). File listing commands only return
- information on backup images for this day, for the day before with the
- next lower dump level, and so on, until the most recent level 0 backup on
- or before the specified date is encountered.
- For example, if:
-
- 1996-07-01 was a level 0 backup
- 1996-07-02 through 1996-07-05 were level 1 backups
- 1996-07-06 through 1997-07-08 were level 2 backups
- then the command setdate 1997-07-08-00 would yield files from the
- following days:
-
- 1997-07-08 (the latest level 2 backup)
- 1997-07-05 (the latest level 1 backup)
- 1997-07-01 (the latest level 0 backup)
- Only the most recent version of a file will be presented.
- The following abbreviated date specifications are accepted:
-
-
- --MM-DD
- dates in the current year
-
- ---DD
- dates in the current month of the current year
-
-
-
-
- setdisk diskname [mountpoint]
- Specifies which disk to consider (default: the disk holding the working
- directory where amrecover is started). It can only be set after the host
- is set with sethost. Diskname is the device name specified in the
- amanda.conf or disklist configuration file. The disk must be local to the
- host. If mountpoint is not specified, all pathnames will be relative to
- the (unknown) mount point instead of full pathnames.
-
- listhost [diskdevice]
- List all host
-
- listdisk [diskdevice]
- List all diskname
-
- settape [[server]:][tapedev|default]
- Specifies the host to use as the tape server, and which of its tape
- devices to use. If the server is omitted, but the colon is not, the
- server name reverts to the configure-time default. If the tape device is
- omitted, it remains unchanged. To use the default tape device selected by
- the tape server, the word default must be specified. If no argument is
- specified, or the argument is an empty string, no changes occur, and the
- current settings are displayed.
- If you want amrecover to use your changer, the tapedev must be equal to
- the amrecover_changer setting on the server.
- If you need to change the protocol (tape:, rait:, file:, null:) then you
- must specify the hostname.
-
- settape 192.168.0.10:file:/file1
-
- You can change the tape device when amrecover ask you to load the tape:
-
- Load tape DMP014 now
- Continue? [Y/n/t]: t
- Tape device: server2:/dev/nst2
- Continue? [Y/n/t]: Y
- Using tape /dev/nst2 from server server2.
-
-
-
-
- setmode mode
- Set the extraction mode for Samba shares. If mode is smb, shares are sent
- to the Samba server to be restored back onto the PC. If mode is tar, they
- are extracted on the local machine the same way tar volumes are
- extracted.
-
- mode
- Displays the extracting mode for Samba shares.
-
- history
- Show the backup history of the current host and disk. Dates, levels,
- tapes and file position on tape of each backup are displayed.
-
- pwd
- Display the name of the current backup working directory.
-
- cd dir
- Change the backup working directory to dir. If the mount point was
- specified with setdisk, 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
- dir can be a shell style wildcards.
-
- cdx dir
- Like the cd command but allow regular expression.
-
- lpwd
- Display the amrecover working directory. Files will be restored under
- this directory, relative to the backed up filesystem.
-
- lcd path
- Change the amrecover working directory to path.
-
- ls
- List the contents of the current backup working directory. See the
- description of the setdate command for how the view of the directory is
- built up. The backup date is shown for each file.
-
- add item1 item2 ...
- Add the specified files or directories to the restore list. Each item may
- have shell style wildcards.
-
- addx item1 item2 ...
- Add the specified files or directories to the restore list. Each item may
- be a regular expression.
-
- delete item1 item2 ...
- Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list. Each
- item may have shell style wildcards.
-
- deletex item1 item2 ...
- Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list. Each
- item may be a regular expression.
-
- list file
- 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 Amanda tapes with amrestore.
-
- clear
- Clear the restore list.
-
- quit
- Close the connection to the index server and exit.
-
- exit
- Close the connection to the index server and exit.
-
- extract
- 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 lpwd to display the local
- working directory, and lcd to change it.
-
- help
- Display a brief list of these commands.
-
-
-EXAMPLES
-
-The following shows the recovery of an old syslog file.
-
- # cd /var/log
- # ls -l syslog.7
- syslog.7: No such file or directory
- # amrecover
- AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
- 220 oops Amanda index server (2.4.2) ready.
- Setting restore date to today (1997-12-09)
- 200 Working date set to 1997-12-09.
- 200 Config set to daily.
- 200 Dump host set to this-host.some.org.
- $CWD '/var/log' is on disk '/var' mounted at '/var'.
- 200 Disk set to /var.
- /var/log
- WARNING: not on root of selected filesystem, check man-page!
- amrecover> ls
- 1997-12-09 daemon.log
- 1997-12-09 syslog
- 1997-12-08 authlog
- 1997-12-08 sysidconfig.log
- 1997-12-08 syslog.0
- 1997-12-08 syslog.1
- 1997-12-08 syslog.2
- 1997-12-08 syslog.3
- 1997-12-08 syslog.4
- 1997-12-08 syslog.5
- 1997-12-08 syslog.6
- 1997-12-08 syslog.7
- amrecover> add syslog.7
- Added /log/syslog.7
- amrecover> lpwd
- /var/log
- amrecover> lcd ..
- /var
- amrecover> extract
-
- Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192.168.0.10
-
- The following tapes are needed: DMP014
-
- Restoring files into directory /var
- Continue? [Y/n]: y
-
- Load tape DMP014 now
- Continue? [Y/n/t]: y
- set owner/mode for '.'? [yn] n
- amrecover> quit
- 200 Good bye.
- # ls -l syslog.7
- total 26
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 12678 Oct 14 16:36 syslog.7
-
-If you do not want to overwrite existing files, create a subdirectory to run
-amrecover from and then move the restored files afterward.
-
- # cd /var
- # (umask 077 ; mkdir .restore)
- # cd .restore
- # amrecover
- AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
- ...
- amrecover> cd log
- /var/log
- amrecover> ls
- ...
- amrecover> add syslog.7
- Added /log/syslog.7
- amrecover> lpwd
- /var/.restore
- amrecover> extract
-
- Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192.168.0.10
- ...
- amrecover> quit
- 200 Good bye.
- # mv -i log/syslog.7 ../log/syslog.7-restored
- # cd ..
- # rm -fr .restore
-
-If you need to run amrestore by hand instead of letting amrecover control it,
-use the list command after browsing to display the needed tapes.
-
- # cd /var/log
- # amrecover
- AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
- ...
- amrecover> ls
- ...
- amrecover> add syslog syslog.6 syslog.7
- Added /log/syslog
- Added /log/syslog.6
- Added /log/syslog.7
- amrecover> list
- TAPE DMP014 LEVEL 0 DATE 1997-12-08
- /log/syslog.7
- /log/syslog.6
- TAPE DMP015 LEVEL 1 DATE 1997-12-09
- /log/syslog
- amrecover> quit
-
-The history 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.
-Tape file position zero is a label. The first backup image is in file position
-one.
-
- # cd /var/log
- # amrecover
- AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
- ...
- amrecover> history
- 200- Dump history for config "daily" host "this-host.some.org" disk "/var"
- 201- 1997-12-09 1 DMP015 9
- 201- 1997-12-08 1 DMP014 11
- 201- 1997-12-07 0 DMP013 22
- 201- 1997-12-06 1 DMP012 16
- 201- 1997-12-05 1 DMP011 9
- 201- 1997-12-04 0 DMP010 11
- 201- 1997-12-03 1 DMP009 7
- 201- 1997-12-02 1 DMP008 7
- 201- 1997-12-01 1 DMP007 9
- 201- 1997-11-30 1 DMP006 6
- ...
- amrecover> quit
-
-
-ENVIRONMENT
-
-PAGER The ls and list commands will use $PAGER to display the file lists.
-Defaults to more if PAGER is not set.
-AMANDA_SERVER If set, $AMANDA_SERVER will be used as index-server. The value
-will take precedence over the compiled default, but will be overridden by the -
-s switch.
-AMANDA_TAPE_SERVER If set, $AMANDA_TAPE_SERVER will be used as tape-server. The
-value will take precedence over the compiled default, but will be overridden by
-the -t switch.
-
-AUTHOR
-
-Alan M. McIvor <alan@kauri.auck.irl.cri.nz> : Original text
-Stefan G. Weichinger, <sgw@amanda.org>, maintainer of the Amanda-documentation:
-XML-conversion
-
-SEE ALSO
-
-amanda(8), amanda-client.conf(5), amrestore(8), amfetchdump(8), readline(3)
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