The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
amzfs-snapshot – Amanda script to create zfs snapshot Description amzfs-snapshot is an Amanda script implementing the Script API. It should not be run by users directly. It create a zfs snapshot of the filesystem where the path specified is mounted. PRE-DLE-* create a snapshot and the POST-DLE-* destroy the snapshot, *-DLE-AMCHECK, *-DLE-ESTIMATE and *-DLE-BACKUP must…
amzfs-sendrecv – Amanda script to create zfs sendrecv Description amzfs-sendrecv is an Amanda application implementing the Application API. It should not be run by users directly. It create a zfs snapshot of the filesystem and backup the snapshot with ‘zfs send’. Snapshot are kept after the backup is done, this increase the disk space use…
amverify – check an Amanda tape for errors Synopsis amverify config [slot [runtapes]] Description Amverify reads an Amanda format tape and makes sure each backup image can be processed by amrestore and, if possible, the appropriate restore program (e.g. tar). Amverify runs amrestore on each file of the tape and pipes the output to a restore…
amvault – Copy Amanda dumps from one volume to another Synopsis amvault [-o configoption…] [–dry-run | -n] [–quiet | -q] [–fulls-only] [–exact-match] [–export] [–src-timestamp src-timestamp] –label-template label-template –dst-changer dst-changer [–autolabel autolabel-arg…] config [hostname [ disk [ date [ level [ hostname […] ] ] ] ]] Warning 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. Note…
amtu_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the amtu processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the amtu processes via flexible mandatory access control. The amtu processes execute with the amtu_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…
amtu – Abstract Machine Test Utility (AMTU) Synopsis amtu [-dmsinph] Description Abstract Machine Test Utility (AMTU) is an administrative utility that checks whether the underlying protection mechanisms of the hardware are being enforced. These checks are a requirement of the Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP) FPT_AMT.1 (see http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/protection_profiles/CAPP-1.d.pdf). AMTU executes the following tests: * Memory…
amtoc – generate TOC (Table Of Contents) for an Amanda run Synopsis amtoc [-a] [-i] [-t] [-f file] [-s subs] [-w] [–] logfile Description Amtoc generates a table of contents for an Amanda run. It’s a perl script (if you don’t have perl, install it first!). Options -a The output file name will be label-of-the-tape.toc in the…
amtapetype – generate a tapetype definition by testing the device directly Synopsis amtapetype [-h] [-c] [-f] [-p] [-b blocksize] [-t typename] [-l label] [-o configoption…] [config] [device] Description amtapetype generates a tapetype entry for Amanda by testing the device directly. Options Note The options for amtapetype have changed in version 2.6.1 -h Display the help message. -c Run only…
amtape – Control Amanda changers Synopsis amtape [-o configoption…] config subcommand [subcommand_options…] Description Amtape is the command-line interface to Amanda’s tape changers (amanda-changers(7)) and to the taperscan algorithm (amanda-taperscan(7)). Tape changers maintain a notion of the current slot for each configuration. This may or may not correspond to an actual physical state of the device, but…
amsuntar – Amanda Application to interface with native tar utility available on solaris platforms Description Amsuntar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses Solaris bundled tar utility to backup and restore data. Currenty ACLs from ZFS file system can only be backed up using the solaris…
amstatus – display the state of an Amanda run Synopsis amstatus [–file amdumpfile] [–summary] [–dumping] [–waitdumping] [–waittaper] [–dumpingtape] [–writingtape] [–finished] [–failed] [–estimate] [–gestimate] [–stats] [–locale-independent-date-format] [–config] config Description Amstatus gives the current state of the Amanda run specified by the config configuration. If there is no active Amanda running, it summarizes the result of the last…
amstar – Amanda Application to interface with star Description Amstar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses star to backup and restore data. The diskdevice in the disklist (DLE) must be the directory to backup. Include – Exclude amstar doesn’t support include. Both ‘exclude list’ and…
amservice – run an amanda service on a client Synopsis amservice [-f input_file [-s]] [-o configoption…] hostname auth service Description Amservice execute an Amanda service on a client. It can be used without amanda server configuration (amanda.conf and disklist). It can be used to check communication between a server and a client. Amservice reads stdin to capture the…
amserverconfig – program to setup initial Amanda configuration Synopsis amserverconfig config [–template template] [–no-vtape] [–tapetype tapetype] [–tpchanger tpchanger] [–tapedev tapedev] [–changerfile changerfile] [–changerdev changerdev] [–labelstr labelstr] [–mailto mailto] [–dumpcycle dumpcycle] [–runspercycle runspercycle] [–runtapes runtapes] [–tapecycle tapecycle] [–help] Description After Amanda rpms are successfully installed, amserverconfig will setup initial Amanda configuration files. It will create /var/lib/amanda/guntar-lists directory if one does not exist. amserverconfig does not change existing Amanda…
amsamba – Amanda Application to interface with smbclient Description Amsamba is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses smbclient to backup and restore data. The diskdevice in the disklist (DLE) must have the form ‘//CIFSHOST/SHARE/SUBDIR’ where CIFSHOST is the CIFS host containing the data to be backed…
amrmtape – remove a tape from the Amanda database Synopsis amrmtape [–changer changer-name] [–cleanup] [–dryrun] [-n] [–erase] [–keep-label] [–quiet] [-q] [–verbose] [-v] config label Description Amrmtape invalidates the contents of an existing backup tape in the configuration database. This is meant as a recovery mechanism when a good backup is damaged either by faulty hardware or…
amrestore – low-level data-extraction from Amanda volumes Synopsis amrestore [–config config] [-r | -c | -C] [-b blocksize] [-f filenum] [-l label] [-p] [-h] [–exact-match] [-o configoption…] [{changerspec} | {[–holding] holdingfile}] [hostname [ diskname [ datestamp [ hostname [ diskname [ datestamp … ] ] ] ] ]] Note that this is the only Amanda command which does not take a configuration name as its first argument. Description Amrestore is a very low-level tool for extracting data…
amreport – generate a formatted output of statistics for an Amanda run Synopsis amreport [-o configoption…] [(1) command-line options | (2) script options] [config] (1) [–log=logfile] [–ps=filename] [–text=filename] [–xml=filename] [–print=printer] [–mail-text=recipient] (2) [-i] [-M address] [-l logfile] [-f outputfile] [-p postscriptfile] [–from-amdump] Description Amreport generates a summary report of an Amanda backup run. See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda. Options…
amrecover – Amanda index database browser Synopsis amrecover [-s index-server] [-t tape-server] [-d tape-device] [-h hostname] [-o configoption…] [-C config] 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…
amraw – Amanda Application open and read data Description Amraw is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses dd to backup and restore data. Amraw can backup only one directory entry, it can be a single file, a raw device, anything that amanda can open and read….