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 .\"     Title: amvault
 .\"    Author: Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
 .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot_8273 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
 .\"     Title: amvault
 .\"    Author: Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
 .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot_8273 <http://docbook.sf.net/>

-.\"      Date: 06/01/2010
+.\"      Date: 10/18/2010

 .\"    Manual: System Administration Commands
 .\"    Manual: System Administration Commands

-.\"    Source: Amanda 3.1.0
+.\"    Source: Amanda 3.2.0

 .\"  Language: English
 .\"
 .\"  Language: English
 .\"

-.TH "AMVAULT" "8" "06/01/2010" "Amanda 3\&.1\&.0" "System Administration Commands"
+.TH "AMVAULT" "8" "10/18/2010" "Amanda 3\&.2\&.0" "System Administration Commands"

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@@ -22,28 +22,57 @@
 amvault \- Copy Amanda dumps from one volume to another
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 .HP \w'\fBamvault\fR\ 'u
 amvault \- Copy Amanda dumps from one volume to another
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 .HP \w'\fBamvault\fR\ 'u

-\fBamvault\fR [{\fB\-o\fR\ \fIconfigoption\fR}...] [\-q|\-\-quiet] \fIconfig\fR \fIsrc\-run\-timestamp\fR \fIdst\-changer\fR \fIlabel\-template\fR
+\fBamvault\fR [\fB\-o\fR\ \fIconfigoption\fR...] [\-q] [\-\-quiet] [\-n] [\-\-dry\-run] [\-\-fulls\-only] [\-\-export] [\fB\-\-src\-timestamp\fR\ \fIsrc\-timestamp\fR]
+.br
+\fB\-\-label\-template\fR\ \fIlabel\-template\fR \fB\-\-dst\-changer\fR\ \fIdst\-changer\fR [\fB\-\-autolabel\fR\ \fIautolabel\-arg\fR...]
+.br
+\fIconfig\fR [\fIhostname\fR\ [\ \fIdisk\fR\ [\ \fIdate\fR\ [\ \fIlevel\fR\ [\ \fIhostname\fR\ [\&.\&.\&.]\ ]\ ]\ ]\ ]]

 .SH "WARNING"
 .PP
 This application is not yet in its final form, and is subject to major revision in subsequent versions of Amanda\&. Backward compatibility is not guaranteed\&.
 .PP
 .SH "WARNING"
 .PP
 This application is not yet in its final form, and is subject to major revision in subsequent versions of Amanda\&. Backward compatibility is not guaranteed\&.
 .PP

-The significant limitations of this version of amvault are: tapetypes for secondary and tertiary volumes much match (including length and device_properties); tertiary volumes must be blank (manual erasure is required to re\-use tertiary media; restore/recover operations will request tertiary media by label when dumpfiles are not found on secondary media, but there is no provision to automatically fetch such media from a different changer; and all dumpfiles on a secondary volume are moved to tertiary media \- there is no provision to filter dumps\&.
+Note that Amanda restore/recover operations will request tertiary media by label when dumpfiles are not found on secondary media, but there is no provision to automatically fetch such media from a different changer

 .PP
 Feedback on and patches to this application are invited and encouraged!
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 .PP
 .PP
 Feedback on and patches to this application are invited and encouraged!
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 .PP

+Amvault is conceptually equivalent to "amfetchdump | taper"\&. That is, it reads specified dumps from secondary media and re\-writes them on tertiary media\&.
+.PP

 \fBAmvault\fR
 Copies data from the run with timestamp
 \fBAmvault\fR
 Copies data from the run with timestamp

-\fIsrc\-run\-timestamp\fR
+\fBsrc\-timestamp\fR

 onto volumes using the changer
 onto volumes using the changer

-\fIdst\-changer\fR, labeling new volumes with
-\fIlabel\-template\fR\&. If
-\fIsrc\-run\-timestamp\fR
-is "latest", then the most recent amdump or amflush run will be used\&.
+\fBdst\-changer\fR, and labeling new volumes with
+\fBlabel\-template\fR\&. If
+\fBsrc\-timestamp\fR
+is "latest", then the most recent amdump or amflush run will be used\&. If
+\fB\-\-fulls\-only\fR
+is given, then only full (level\-0) dumps are copied\&.
+.PP
+The
+\fB\-\-quiet\fR
+(\fB\-q\fR) option will eliminate non\-error messages, and is useful when running amvault from cron\&. The
+\fB\-\-dry\-run\fR
+(\fB\-n\fR) option will cause amvault to print the dumps it would vault, but not actually perform any vaulting operations\&.
+.SS "Secondary Media"

 .PP
 .PP

-In a vaulting operation, the source media is referred to as "secondary media", while the destination is referred to as "tertiary media"\&.
+The dumps to be read from secondary media can be specified by any combination of dump specifications,
+\fB\-\-fulls\-only\fR, and
+\fB\-\-src\-timestamp\fR\&. At least one must be specified, lest amvault attempt to vault all dumps in the catalog\&. See
+\fBamanda-match\fR(7)
+for more information on dump specifications\&.

 .PP
 .PP

-Each source volume will be copied to a new destination volume; no re\-assembly or splitting will be performed\&. Destination volumes must be at least as large as the source volumes\&.
+Note that the datestamp given in the dumpspec is the
+\fIdump\fR
+datestamp \- the run in which the backup was taken on the Amanda client\&. The
+\fB\-\-src\-timestamp\fR, on the other hand, is the
+\fIwrite\fR
+timestamp \- the run in which the dump was written to secondary media\&. The latter option facilitates duplicating the results of an entire backup run, including any dumps that might have been flushed from holding disk\&.
+.SS "Tertiary Media"
+.PP
+The
+\fB\-\-dst\-changer\fR
+must be specified, and names the changer in which tertiary media are stored\&. In general, this should be different from the secondary changer, to eliminate the possibility of overwriting secondary media with tertiary data\&.

 .PP
 The changer parameter should specify the name of a changer defined in
 \fBamanda.conf\fR(5)\&. For example:
 .PP
 The changer parameter should specify the name of a changer defined in
 \fBamanda.conf\fR(5)\&. For example:


@@ -58,19 +87,37 @@ define changer vaulting_tape {
 .fi
 .PP
 The
 .fi
 .PP
 The

-\fI\-\-quiet\fR
-option reduces the verbosity of the utility; this can be useful for volumes containing many split parts\&. The
-\fI\-\-autolabel\fR
-option defines which tertiary volumes amlabel will overwrite\&. It can have any of the values defined for
-\fBautolabel\fR
-in
-\fBamanda.conf\fR(5), with the addition of "this_config", meaning volumes matching the labelstr for this configuration\&. The option defaults to "empty"\&. Multiple values can be separated with commas\&. The label template functions identically to the template for teh
+\fB\-\-label\-template\fR
+option is required, and specifies a label template which is used to generate new labels for tertiary volumes\&. The
+\fB\-\-autolabel\fR
+option works just like the

 \fBautolabel\fR
 \fBautolabel\fR

-parameter\&.
+parameter in
+\fBamanda.conf\fR(5), and can be specified multiple times if necessary\&. The default is \'empty\'\&.
+.PP
+If
+\fBamanda.conf\fR(5)
+contains the new
+\fBpart\-size\fR
+splitting parameters, then amvault will use them without any additional configuration\&. However, if the configuration still uses the old splitting parameters (\fBtape_splitsize\fR,
+\fBsplit_diskbuffer\fR, and
+\fBfallback_splitsize\fR), then amvault will need some additional configuration in order to properly split dumps to tertiary media\&. To do so, specify a new tapetype in
+\fBamanda.conf\fR(5), say "TERTIARY", and set the
+\fBpart\-size\fR
+and other appropriate parameters there\&. Then reference that tapetype in the amvault invocation:
+.sp
+.nf
+    amvault \-otapetype=TERTIARY \&.\&.\&.
+.fi
+.PP
+The
+\fB\-\-export\fR
+option will cause amvault to attempt to move completed tertiary volumes to import/export slots, where they can be more easily removed by an operator\&.

 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .PP
 \fBamanda\fR(8),
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .PP
 \fBamanda\fR(8),

-\fBamanda-changers\fR(7)
+\fBamanda-changers\fR(7),
+\fBamfetchdump\fR(8)

 .PP
 The Amanda Wiki:
 : http://wiki.zmanda.com/
 .PP
 The Amanda Wiki:
 : http://wiki.zmanda.com/