-Chapter 4. Indexing with AMANDA
+Chapter 4. Indexing with Amanda
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-Chapter 4. Indexing with AMANDA
+Chapter 4. Indexing with Amanda
Alan M. McIvor
The client is called amrecover and is loosely based on the functionality of the
program recover from Backup Copilot. A user starts up amrecover. This requires
-specifying the index server and the AMANDA config name (defaults for both are
+specifying the index server and the Amanda config name (defaults for both are
compiled in as part of the installation). Then the user has to specify the name
of the host information is wanted about, the disk name, and (optionally) the
disk mount point. Finally a date needs to be specified. Given all this, the
|HOST_<host>________|set_host_to_host________________________________________|
|DISK_<disk>________|set_disk_to_disk________________________________________|
|LISTDISK_[<device>]|list_the_disks_for_the_current_host_____________________|
-|SCNF_<config>______|set_AMANDA_configuration_to_config______________________|
+|SCNF_<config>______|set_Amanda_configuration_to_config______________________|
|DATE_<date>________|set_date_to_date________________________________________|
|DHST_______________|return_dump_history_of_current_disk_____________________|
| |Opaque is directory? query. Is the directory dir present|
This cause sendbackup-dump on the client machine to generate an index file
which is stored local to the client, for later recovery by amgetidx (which
is called by amdump).
- 3. AMANDA saves all the index files under a directory specified by
+ 3. Amanda saves all the index files under a directory specified by
"indexdir" in amanda.conf. You need to create this directory by hand. It
needs to have read/write permissions set for the user you defined to run
- AMANDA.
+ Amanda.
If you are using the "text database" option you may set indexdir and
infofile to be the same directory.
4. The index browser, amrecover, currently gets installed as part of the
Permissions
-The userid chosen to run the AMANDA client code must have permission to run
+The userid chosen to run the Amanda client code must have permission to run
restore since this is used by createindex-dump to generate the index files.
For a user to be able to restore files from within amrecover, that user must
have permission to run restore.
Changes from amindex-1.0
Get index directory from amanda.conf.
-Integration into AMANDA-2.3.0.4.
+Integration into Amanda-2.3.0.4.
Rewriting of amgetidx to use amandad instead of using rsh/rcp.
Changes from amindex-0.3