amgetconf(8) [redhat man page]
AMGETCONF(8) System Manager's Manual AMGETCONF(8) NAME
amgetconf - look up amanda.conf variables SYNOPSIS
amgetconf [ config ] parameter DESCRIPTION
Amgetconf looks up parameters in amanda.conf, the Amanda configuration file, or from the build and runtime environment, and returns their corresponding value. If config is not specified, amgetconf assumes it is being run from the configuration directory and that amanda.conf is present. If parameter begins with build., the (case insensitive) string following the period is a build environment variable. Variables without a value (e.g. XFSDUMP on a system that does not support that type of file system) will not report an error and will return an empty string as the value. Flag variables (e.g. USE_AMANDAHOSTS) will return 1 if the flag is set or an empty string if it is not. If parameter begins with dbopen., the string following the period is a program name and an Amanda debug file will be created for the call- er. The name of the file is returned. If parameter begins with dbclose., the string following the period is a program name previously used with dbopen., followed by a colon (:) and the previously opened file name. See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda. EXAMPLE
Find out the path to the log file directory: % amgetconf DailySet1 logdir /etc/amanda/DailySet1 Find out the current tape type: % amgetconf DailySet1 tapetype DLT4000-IV Find out the default configuration directory: % amgetconf DailySet1 build.CONFIG_DIR /etc/amanda Create, use and close a debug file in a script: % set debug_file = `amgetconf DailySet1 dbopen.myscript` % echo debug information >> $debug_file % amgetconf DailySet1 dbclose.myscript:$debug_file MESSAGES
amgetconf: no such parameter "param" Parameter param is not a known keyword (e.g. not a valid amanda.conf keyword). In this case, amgetconf will write "BUGGY" to stdout as the value. SEE ALSO
amanda(8) AMGETCONF(8)
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AMSERVERCONFIG(8) System Administration Commands AMSERVERCONFIG(8) NAME
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 configurations. amserverconfig must be run by user amandabackup. OPTIONS
Options may be abbreviated, as long as the abbreviation is not ambiguous. Option argument can either separated by '=' or a space. Example: --templ=harddisk --tapedev /dev/nst0 amserverconfig builds a new "config" Amanda configuration. Customize the configuration with the options below. --template template build Amanda configuration with pre-configured template files. Currently, harddisk, single-tape, tape-changer and S3 are the valid inputs for this option. Pre-configured template files can be found in /var/lib/amanda/template.d. This option may be combined with other options. If tape-changer is chosen for this option, program mtx is required. amserverconfig will search for mtx in the following directory: "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/bin", "/bin" and amandabackup's PATH. If harddisk is chosen and --no-vtape is not specified, amserverconfig will create and label virtual tape file://var/lib/amanda/vtapes/$config. --no-vtape Do not create virtual tapes in the harddisk template case. --tapedev tapedev The path name of non-rewinding tape device. default [file://var/lib/amanda/vtapes/$config] --tpchanger tpchanger The name of the tape changer. default [chg-disk] --changerdev changerdev A tape changer configuration parameter. default [/dev/null] --changerfile changerfile A tape changer configuration parameter. default [/etc/amanda/$config/changer.conf] --labelstr labelstr The tape label constraint regular expression. default [^$config-[0-9][0-9]*$] If this option is used with --template=harddisk, only alphanumeric string is supported. --tapetype tapetype The type of tape drive associated with tapedev or tpchanger. default [HARDDISK] --mailto mailto A space separated list of recipients for mail reports. default [amandabackup] --dumpcycle dumpcycle The number of days in the backup cycle. default [1week] --runspercycle runspercycle The number of days in the backup cycle. default [5] --runtapes runtapes The maximum number of tapes used in a single run. default [1] --tapecycle tapecycle The size of tape rotation. default [25] --help Display usage. FILES
/var/lib/amanda/template.d Amanda configuration template files install location /var/lib/amanda amandabackup home directory /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists A directory which contains backup timestamp and list of files backed up. /etc/amanda/$config Amanda configuration files location for $config(e.g: DailySet1). /etc/amanda/template.d A directory contains dumptypes and tapetypes files used by all Amanda configurations. /etc/amandates Amanda file on the client. It keeps track of structures of previous dumps. /tmp/amanda directory contains Amanda debug log files. RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, 1 is returned. SEE ALSO
amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), amaddclient(8) The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/ AUTHOR
Kevin Till <kevin.till@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Amanda 3.3.3 01/10/2013 AMSERVERCONFIG(8)