Section 8: administration and privileged commands
amflush – flush Amanda backup files from holding disk to tape Synopsis amflush [-b] [-f] [–exact-match] [-s] [-D datestamp] [-o configoption…] config [host [disk…]…] Description Amflush writes Amanda backups from the holding disks to tape, and updates the Amanda info database and tapelist(5) accordingly. It is similar to amdump, but does not perform any backup operations on Amanda…
amfetchdump – extract backup images from multiple Amanda tapes. Synopsis amfetchdump [-c | -C | -l] [-p | -n] [-a] [-O directory] [-d device] [-h | –header-file filename | –header-fd fd] [–decompress | –no-decompress | –server-decompress | –client-decompress] [–extract –directory directory [–data-path amanda|directtcp] [–application-property NAME=VALUE]*] [–decrypt | –no-decrypt | –server-decrypt | –client-decrypt] [–exact_match] [-o configoption…] config hostname [disk [ date [ level [ hostname […] ] ] ]] Description Amfetchdump pulls one or more matching…
amdump_client – back up all disks in an Amanda configuration Synopsis amdump_client [-o configoption…] [–config config] CMD [diskname…] Description Amdump_client initiate backup on the client. There are three commands (CMD): list list all diskname that can be dumped. check Check the configuration of the client and disk. dump Start a backup of the specified diskname, or all…
amdump – back up all disks in an Amanda configuration Synopsis amdump [–no-taper] [–exact-match] [-o configoption…] config [host [disk…]…] Description Amdump is the main interface to the Amanda backup process. It loads the specified configuration and attempts to back up every disk specified by the disklist(5). Amdump is normally run by cron. The command optionally takes a…
amdevcheck – Validate an Amanda device and volume. Synopsis amdevcheck [–label] [-properties list] [-o configoption…] config [device-name] Description Amdevcheck provides a way to check that a particular Amanda device is accessible, whether or not it contains a volume, and whether or not that volume is labeled. Some devices can’t distinguish between all of these cases; a missing…
amdd – Amanda version of dd Synopsis amdd [-d] [if=input] [of=output] [bs=blocksize] [skip=count] [count=count] Description Amdd provides just enough of the standard UNIX dd command for the needs of Amanda. This is handy when doing a full restore and the standard dd program has not yet been found. Amdd also provides access to the Amanda…
amd – automatically mount file systems Synopsis amd -H amd [ -F conf_file ] amd [ -nprvHS ] [ -a mount_point ] [ -c duration ] [ -d domain ] [ -k kernel-arch ] [ -l logfile ] [ -o op_sys_ver ] [ -t interval.interval ] [ -w interval ] [ -x log-option ] […
amcryptsimple – reference simple crypt program for Amanda symmetric data encryption Synopsis amcryptsimple to be called by Amanda only Description amcryptsimple calls gpg to perform symmetric data encryption on Amanda backup. amcryptsimple will search for the gpg program in the following directories: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin amcryptsimple uses one passphrase to encrypt the Amanda data and uses the…
amcrypt – reference crypt program for Amanda symmetric data encryption Synopsis amcrypt Description amcrypt requires aespipe, uuencode and gpg to work. Aespipe is available from : http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net amcrypt will search for the aespipe program in the following directories: /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin. amcrypt calls amaespipe and pass the passphrase through file descriptor 3. The passphrase should be stored…
amcrypt-ossl – crypt program for Amanda symmetric data encryption using OpenSSL Synopsis amcrypt-ossl [-d] Description amcrypt-ossl uses OpenSSL to encrypt and decrypt data. OpenSSL is available from www.openssl.org. OpenSSL offers a wide variety of cipher choices ( amcrypt-ossl defaults to 256-bit AES) and can use hardware cryptographic accelerators on several platforms. amcrypt-ossl will search for…
amcrypt-ossl-asym – crypt program for Amanda asymmetric data encryption using OpenSSL Synopsis amcrypt-ossl-asym [-d] Description amcrypt-ossl-asym uses OpenSSL to encrypt and decrypt data. OpenSSL is available from www.openssl.org. OpenSSL offers a wide variety of cipher choices ( amcrypt-ossl-asym defaults to 256-bit AES) and can use hardware cryptographic accelerators on several platforms. amcrypt-ossl-asym will search for…
amcleanupdisk – cleanup holding disk directory Synopsis amcleanupdisk [-r] [-v] config Description Amcleanupdisk list and/or remove invalid file from the holding disk directories. This program is run by amcleanup. See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda. Options -r Remove invalid file from holding disk. -v Generate verbose output. Examples This example runs…
amcleanup – run the Amanda cleanup process after a failure Synopsis amcleanup [-k] [-p] [-r] [-v] config Description Amcleanup generates the Amanda Mail Report and updates the Amanda databases after a system failure on a tape server host. This cleanup process is normally done automatically as part of the amdump program, but if amdump cannot…
amcheckdump – check the results of an Amanda dump Synopsis amcheckdump [–timestamp|-t timestamp] [–verbose] [-o configoption…] config Description Amcheckdump verifies Amanda dump images by reading them from storage volume(s) and verifying that the images can be parsed by the appropriate application (if available). For example, a GNUTAR image is passed to GNU Tar for parsing, and any…
amcheckdb – check Amanda database for tape consistency Synopsis amcheckdb config Description Amcheckdb verifies that every tape mentioned in the Amanda database is still valid in the tapelist(5). See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda. Example This shows a normal response: # amcheckdb daily Ready. This shows tape DMP014 is still listed…
amcheck – run Amanda self-checks Synopsis amcheck [-am] [-w] [-sclt] [-M address] [–client-verbose] [–exact-match] [-o configoption…] config [host [disk…]…] Description Amcheck runs a number of self-checks on both the Amanda tape server host and the Amanda client hosts. On the tape server host, amcheck can go through the same tape checking used at the start of the nightly…
amavis_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the amavis processes Description amavis_t SELinux domain type is now associated with antivirus domain type (antivirus_t). Please see antivirus_selinux man page for more details. Commands semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default file context mappings. semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate whether or not…
amarchiver – Create, extract or list amanda archive Synopsis amarchiver –version|–create|–extract|–list [–verbose] [–file file] [filename]… Description Amarchiver manipulates amanda archive file. On creation, amarchiver doesn’t recurse into directories. If a filename specifies a directory, it will be ignored. If it specifies a character device, amarchiver reads the device and archives the data. If a filename specifies…
amanda_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the amanda processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the amanda processes via flexible mandatory access control. The amanda processes execute with the amanda_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
amanda_recover_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the amanda_recover processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the amanda_recover processes via flexible mandatory access control. The amanda_recover processes execute with the amanda_recover_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…