AMADMIN(8)AMADMIN(8)NAMEamadmin - administrative interface to control Amanda backups
SYNOPSISamadmin config command [command�options]
DESCRIPTION
Amadmin performs various administrative tasks on the configAmanda con‐
figuration.
See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.
COMMANDS
Commands that take a hostname [ disks ] parameter pair operate on all
disks in the disklist for that hostname if no disks are specified.
Where hostname is also marked as being optional, the command operates
on all hosts and disks in the disklist. Both hostname and disks are
special expressions, see the "HOST & DISK EXPRESSION" section of
amanda(8) for a description.
version
Show the current version and some compile time and runtime
parameters. The config parameter must be present but is ignored.
force-bump [ hostname [ disks ]* ]+
Force the disks on hostname to bump to a new incremental level
during the next Amanda run.
force-no-bump [ hostname [ disks ]* ]+
Force the disks on hostname to not bump to a new incremental
level during the next Amanda run.
unforce-bump [ hostname [ disks ]* ]+
Undo a previous force-bump or force-no-bump command.
force [ hostname [ disks ]* ]+
Force the disks on hostname to do a full (level 0) backup during
the next Amanda run.
unforce [ hostname [ disks ]* ]+
Undo a previous force command.
reuse tapelabel [ ... ]
The tapes listed will be available for reuse at their point in
the tape cycle.
no-reuse tapelabel [ ... ]
The tapes listed will not be reused when their turn comes up
again in the tape cycle. Note that if this causes the number of
reusable tapes to drop below the amanda.conftapecycle value,
Amanda will request new tapes until the count is satisfied
again.
due [ hostname [ disks ]* ]*
Show when the next full dump is due.
find [ --sort hkdlpb ] [ hostname [ disks ]* ]*
Display all backups currently on tape or in the holding disk.
The tape label or holding disk filename, file number, and status
are displayed.
The --sort option changes the sort order using the following
flags:
h host name k disk name d dump date l backup level p dump part b
tape label
An uppercase letter reverses the sort order for that key. The
default sort order is hkdlpb.
delete [ hostname [ disks ]* ]+
Delete the specified disks on hostname from the Amanda database.
Note
If you do not also remove the disk from the disklist file,
Amanda will treat it as a new disk during the next run..TP tape
Display the tape(s) Amanda expects to write to during the next
run. See also amcheck(8).
bumpsize
Display the current bump threshold parameters, calculated for
all backup levels.
balance [ --days <num> ]
Display the distribution of full backups throughout the dump
schedule.
export [ hostname [ disks ]* ]*
Convert records from the Amanda database to a text format that
may be transmitted to another Amanda machine and imported.
import Convert exported records read from standard input to a form
Amanda uses and insert them into the database on this machine.
disklist [ hostname [ disks ]* ]*
Display the disklist information for each of the disks on host‐
name (or all hosts). Mostly used for debugging.
info [ hostname [ disks ]* ]*
Display the database record for each of the disks on hostname
(or all hosts). Mostly used for debugging.
EXAMPLES
Request three specific file systems on machine-a get a full level 0
backup during the next Amanda run.
$ amadmin daily force machine-a / /var /usr
amadmin: machine-a:/ is set to a forced level 0 tonight.
amadmin: machine-a:/var is set to a forced level 0 tonight.
amadmin: machine-a:/usr is set to a forced level 0 tonight.
Request all file systems on machine-b get a full level 0 backup during
the next Amanda run.
$ amadmin daily force machine-b
amadmin: machine-b:/ is set to a forced level 0 tonight.
amadmin: machine-b:/var is set to a forced level 0 tonight.
amadmin: machine-b:/usr is set to a forced level 0 tonight.
amadmin: machine-b:/home is set to a forced level 0 tonight.
Undo the previous force request for /home on machine-b. The other file
systems will still get a full level 0 backup.
$ amadmin daily unforce machine-b /home
amadmin: force command for machine-b:/home cleared.
Locate backup images of /var from machine-c. The tape or file column
displays either a tape label or a filename depending on whether the
image is on tape or is still in the holding disk. If the image is on
tape, the file column tells you which file on the tape has the image
(file number zero is a tape label). This column shows zero and is not
meaningful if the image is still in the holding disk. The status column
tells you whether the backup was successful or had some type of error.
$ amadmin daily find machine-c /var
date host disk lv tape or file file part status
2000-11-09 machine-c /var 0 000110 9 -- OK
2000-11-08 machine-c /var 2 000109 2 -- OK
2000-11-07 machine-c /var 2 /amanda/20001107/machine-c._var.2 0 OK
2000-11-06 machine-c /var 2 000107 2 -- OK
2000-11-05 machine-c /var 2 000106 3 -- OK
2000-11-04 machine-c /var 2 000105 2 -- OK
2000-11-03 machine-c /var 2 000104 2 -- OK
2000-11-02 machine-c /var 2 000103 2 -- OK
2000-11-01 machine-c /var 1 000102 5 -- OK
2000-10-31 machine-c /var 1 000101 3 -- OK
Forget about the /workspace disk on machine-d. If you do not also
remove the disk from the disklist file, Amanda will treat it as a new
disk during the next run.
$ amadmin daily delete machine-d /workspace
amadmin: machine-d:/workspace deleted from database.
amadmin: NOTE: you'll have to remove these from the disklist yourself.
Find the next tape Amanda will use (in this case, 123456).
$ amadmin daily tape
The next Amanda run should go onto tape 123456 or a new tape.
Show how well full backups are balanced across the dump cycle. The due-
date column is the day the backups are due for a full backup. #fs
shows the number of filesystems doing full backups that night, and orig
KB and out KB show the estimated total size of the backups before and
after any compression, respectively.
The balance column shows how far off that night's backups are from the
average size (shown at the bottom of the balance column). Amanda tries
to keep the backups within +/- 5%, but since the amount of data on each
filesystem is always changing, and Amanda will never delay backups just
to rebalance the schedule, it is common for the schedule to fluctuate
by larger percentages. In particular, in the case of a tape or backup
failure, a bump will occur the following night, which will not be
smoothed out until the next pass through the schedule.
The last line also shows an estimate of how many Amanda runs will be
made between full backups for a file system. In the example, a file
system will probably have a full backup done every eight times Amanda
is run (e.g. every eight days).
$ amadmin daily balance
due-date #fs orig KB out KB balance
-------------------------------------------
11/10 Mon 21 930389 768753 +5.1%
11/11 Tue 29 1236272 733211 +0.2%
11/12 Wed 31 1552381 735796 +0.6%
11/13 Thu 23 1368447 684552 -6.4%
11/14 Fri 32 1065603 758155 +3.6%
11/15 Sat 14 1300535 738430 +0.9%
11/16 Sun 31 1362696 740365 +1.2%
11/17 Mon 30 1427936 773397 +5.7%
11/18 Tue 11 1059191 721786 -1.3%
11/19 Wed 19 1108737 661867 -9.5%
-------------------------------------------
TOTAL 241 12412187 7316312 731631 (estimated 8 runs per dumpcycle)
FILES
/usr/local/etc/amanda/config/amanda.conf
AUTHOR
James da Silva, <jds@amanda.org> : Original text
Stefan G. Weichinger, <sgw@amanda.org>, maintainer of the Amanda-docu‐
mentation: XML-conversion
SEE ALSOamanda(8), amcheck(8), amdump(8), amrestore(8), amfetchdump(8)AMADMIN(8)
