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AMVAULT(8)		System Administration Commands		    AMVAULT(8)

NAME
       amvault - Copy Amanda dumps from	one volume to another

SYNOPSIS

       amvault [-o configoption...] [--dry-run | -n] [--quiet |	-q]
	       [--fulls-only] [--latest-fulls] [--incrs-only] [--exact-match]
	       [--export] [--no-interactivity] [--src-timestamp	src-timestamp]
	       [--src-storage src-storage] [--dest-storage dest-storage]
	       config
	       [hostname [ disk	[ date [ level [ hostname [dumpspec...]	] ] ] ]]

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 that Amanda	restore/recover	operations will	request	tertiary media
       by label	when dumpfiles are not found on	secondary media, but there is
       no provision to automatically fetch such	media from a different changer

       Feedback	on and patches to this application are invited and encouraged!

DESCRIPTION
       Amvault is conceptually equivalent to "amfetchdump | taper". That is,
       it reads	specified dumps	from secondary media and re-writes them	on
       tertiary	media.

       Amvault Copies dumps selected by	the specified filters onto volumes on
       the storage dest-storage.

   Secondary Media
       The dumps to be read from secondary media can be	specified by any
       combination of dump specifications, --fulls-only, --latest-fulls,
       --incrs-only, and --src-timestamp. At least one must be specified, lest
       amvault attempt to vault	all dumps in the catalog. See amanda-match(7)
       for more	information on dump specifications.

       Note that the datestamp given in	the dumpspec is	the dump datestamp -
       the run in which	the backup was taken on	the Amanda client. The
       --src-timestamp,	on the other hand, is the write	timestamp - the	run in
       which the dump was written to secondary media. The latter option
       facilitates duplicating the results of an entire	backup run, including
       any dumps that might have been flushed from holding disk.

   Tertiary Media
       The amvault-storage is the default destination storage.

       If amanda.conf(5) contains the new part-size splitting parameters, then
       amvault will use	them without any additional configuration. However, if
       the configuration still uses the	old splitting parameters
       (tape_splitsize,	split_diskbuffer, and fallback_splitsize), then
       amvault will need some additional configuration in order	to properly
       split dumps to tertiary media. To do so,	specify	a new tapetype in
       amanda.conf(5), say "TERTIARY", and set the part-size and other
       appropriate parameters there. Then reference that tapetype in the
       amvault invocation:

	   amvault -otapetype=TERTIARY ...

OPTIONS
       --dest-storage dest-storage
	   The vaulted dumps are written to the	specified storage.

	   If the vault-storage	option is specified in amanda.conf(5), amvault
	   will	use that storage as the	default	destination. If	not, a
	   destination storage must be specified on the	amvault	command	line.

       --dry-run, -n
	   Cause amvault to print the dumps it would vault, but	not actually
	   perform any vaulting	operations.

       --exact-match
	   The host and	disk names in the dumpspecs are	parsed as exact
	   values.

       --export
	   Cause amvault to attempt to move completed tertiary volumes to
	   import/export slots,	where they can be more easily removed by an
	   operator.

       --fulls-only
	   Only	full (level-0) dumps are copied.

       --incrs-only
	   Only	incremental (level > 0)	dumps are copied.

       --latest-fulls
	   The latest full of every DLE	in the disklist	that do	not have the
	   skipstrategy.

       --no-interactivity
	   Disable interactivity if a source or	destination volume is not
	   found.

       --quiet,	-q
	   Suppress the	progress messages normally printed to the terminal as
	   dumps are being copied.

       --src-labelstr labelstr
	   Only	dumps from volumes matching labelstr are copied.

	   labelstr is a Perl regular expression, and will be matched as a
	   substring of	the volume labels -- it	may be necessary to anchor the
	   labelstr with "^" and/or "$"	in order to prevent undesired partial
	   matches.

	   Also	note that if a dump is split across multiple volumes and
	   labelstr matches only one of	those volumes, amvault will not	select
	   that	dump for copying. For this reason, it is generally safer to to
	   select dumps	directly using other filters, in which case amvault
	   will	be able	to retrieve parts of split dumps from whatever volume
	   they	were originally	written	to.

       --src-storage src-storage
	   Only	dumps found on the specified storage are copied. (If this
	   option is not given,	all available source storages will be
	   searched.)

       --src-timestamps	src-timestamps
	   Specifies the timestamps in the format 'YYYYMMDDHHMMSS' of the run
	   to vault, can be "latest", then the most recent amdump or amflush
	   run will be used.

       -o configoption
	   See the "CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE" section in amanda(8).

EXAMPLES
       Vault all dump written to tape in the latest amdump or amflush run:
       $ amvault --src-timestamps latest CONF

       Vault all dump written on the run of December 7 2011 12:13:14 :
       $ amvault --src-timestamps 20111207121314 CONF

       Vault all dump dumped on	any run	of December 7 2011:
       $ amvault CONF \* \* 20111207

SEE ALSO
       amanda(8), amanda-changers(7), amfetchdump(8)

       The Amanda Wiki:	: http://wiki.zmanda.com/

AUTHOR
       Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
	   Zmanda, Inc.	(http://www.zmanda.com)

Amanda 3.5.1			  12/01/2017			    AMVAULT(8)

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