AMANDA-CLIENT.CONF(5)AMANDA-CLIENT.CONF(5)NAMEamanda-client.conf - Client configuration file for Amanda, the Advanced
Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
DESCRIPTIONamanda-client.conf is the client configuration file for Amanda. This
manpage lists the relevant sections and parameters of this file for
quick reference.
The files <CONFIG_DIR>/amanda-client.conf and
<CONFIG_DIR>/<config>/amanda-client.conf are loaded.
PARAMETERS
There are a number of configuration parameters that control the
behavior of the Amanda programs. All have default values, so you need
not specify the parameter in amanda-client.conf if the default is
suitable.
Lines starting with # are ignored, as are blank lines. Comments may be
placed on a line with a directive by starting the comment with a #. The
remainder of the line is ignored.
Keywords are case insensitive, i.e. auth and Auth are treated the
same.
Integer arguments may have one of the following (case insensitive)
suffixes, some of which have a multiplier effect:
POSSIBLE SUFFIXES
b byte bytes
Some number of bytes.
bps
Some number of bytes per second.
k kb kbyte kbytes kilobyte kilobytes
Some number of kilobytes (bytes*1024).
kps kbps
Some number of kilobytes per second (bytes*1024).
m mb meg mbyte mbytes megabyte megabytes
Some number of megabytes (bytes*1024*1024).
mps mbps
Some number of megabytes per second (bytes*1024*1024).
g gb gbyte gbytes gigabyte gigabytes
Some number of gigabytes (bytes*1024*1024*1024).
tape tapes
Some number of tapes.
day days
Some number of days.
week weeks
Some number of weeks (days*7).
Note
The value inf may be used in most places where an integer is
expected to mean an infinite amount.
Boolean arguments may have any of the values y, yes, t, true or on
to indicate a true state, or n, no, f, false or off to indicate a
false state. If no argument is given, true is assumed.
PARAMETERS
conf string
Default: Set by configure. The conf use by amrecover.
index_server string
Default: Set by configure. The amindexd server amrecover will
connect to.
tape_server string
Default: Set by configure. The amidxtaped server amrecover will
connect to.
tapedev string
Default: Set by configure. The tapedev amrecover will use.
auth string
Default: bsd. Type of authorization to perform between tape server
and backup client hosts.
bsd, bsd authorization with udp initial connection and one tcp
connection by data stream.
bsdtcp, bsd authorization but use only one tcp connection.
bsdudp, like bsd, but will use only one tcp connection for all data
stream.
krb4 to use Kerberos-IV authorization.
krb5 to use Kerberos-V authorization.
rsh to use rsh authorization.
ssh to use OpenSSH authorization.
ssh_keys string
Default: No default. The key file the ssh auth will use, it must be
the private key. If this parameter is not specified, then the
deafult ssh key will be used.
gnutar_list_dir string
Default from configure --with-gnutar-listdir=DIR. The directory
where gnutar keep its state file.
amandates string
Default: /etc/amandates. The file where amanda keep the last date
of each dumplevel.
connect_tries int
Default: 3. How many times the server will try a connection.
rep_tries int
Default: 5. How many times amandad will resend a REP packet if it
doesn't get the ACK packet.
debug_amandad int
Default: 0. Debug level of the amandad process
debug_amidxtaped int
Default: 0. Debug level of the amidxtaped process
debug_amindexd int
Default: 0. Debug level of the amindexd process
debug_amrecover int
Default: 0. Debug level of the amrecover process
debug_auth int
Default: 0. Debug level of the auth module
debug_event int
Default: 0. Debug level of the event module
debug_holding int
Default: 0. Debug level of the holdingdisk module
debug_protocol int
Default: 0. Debug level of the protocol module
debug_selfcheck int
Default: 0. Debug level of the selfcheck process
debug_sendsize int
Default: 0. Debug level of the sendsize process
debug_sendbackup int
Default: 0. Debug level of the sendbackup process
reserved-udp-port int,int
Default: --with-udpportrange or 512,1023. Reserved udp port that
will be used (amrecover with bsd or bsdudp)
reserved-tcp-port int,int
Default: --with-low-tcpportrange or 512,1023. Reserved tcp port
that will be used (amrecover with bsdtcp)
unreserved-tcp-port int,int
Default: --with-tcpportrange or 1025,65536. Unreserved tcp port
that will be used (bsd, bsdudp)
AUTHOR
James da Silva, <jds@amanda.org>: Original text
Stefan G. Weichinger, <sgw@amanda.org>, maintainer of the
Amanda-documentation: XML-conversion, major update, splitting
SEE ALSOamanda(8), amanda.conf(5), amcrypt(8), aespipe(1),
06/06/2007 AMANDA-CLIENT.CONF(5)
