AMBSDTAR(8) System Administration Commands AMBSDTAR(8) NAME ambsdtar - Amanda Application to interface with BSD Tar DESCRIPTION Ambsdtar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses BSD Tar to backup and restore data. The diskdevice in the disklist (DLE) must be the directory to backup. Extracting backup never remove files. If a file where present in the level 0 backup, you removed it, made a level 1 backup, then after extracting both levels, the file will be present. PROPERTIES This section lists the properties that control ambsdtar's functionality. See amanda-applications(7) for information on application properties and how they are configured. COMMAND-OPTIONS If set, theses options are passed asis to gtar. Each option must be a different value of the property. Some option can break how amanda do backup, use it with care. Use: property "COMMAND-OPTIONS" "--foo" "bar" Do not use: property "COMMAND-OPTIONS" "--foo bar" DIRECTORY If set, bsdtar will backup from that directory instead of the diskde- vice set by the DLE. On restore, the data is restore in that directory instead of the current working directory. SPARSE If "YES", the default, it use the -S option of bsdtar when restoring to create sparse files. STATE-DIR The directory where ambsdtar stores the database it uses to generate incremental dumps. The default is set when Amanda is built. BSDTAR-PATH The path to the bsdtar binary. The default is set when Amanda is built. ONE-FILE-SYSTEM If "YES" (the default), do not allow bsdtar to cross filesystem bound- aries. If "NO", bsdtar will cross filesystem boundaries. This corre- sponds to the --one-filesystem option of bsdtar. TAR-BLOCKSIZE Block size of Nx512 bytes (default N=20). This corresponds to the --blocking-factor option of bsdtar. EXIT-HANDLING List which exit status of gtar are good or bad. eg. "1=GOOD 2=BAD", exit status of 1 will produce a good backup, exit status of 2 will give an error. NORMAL List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that are nor- mal output from gtar. These output are in the "FAILED DUMP DETAILS" section of the email report if the dump result is STRANGE or FAILED. Default values: "^could not open conf file" "^Elapsed time:" "^Throughput" ": socket ignored$" ": File .* shrunk by [0-9][0-9]* bytes, padding with zeros" ": Cannot add file .*: No such file or directory$" ": Error exit delayed from previous errors" To treat one of these default patterns differently, specify it explic- itly in a different property. IGNORE List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that amanda ignore. These output are never in the email report. Default values: ": Directory is new$" ": Directory has been renamed" To treat one of these default patterns differently, specify it explic- itly in a different property. STRANGE List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that are strange output from gtar. All gtar output that doesn't match a normal or ignore regex are strange by default. The result of the dump is STRANGE if gtar produce a strange output. These output are in the "FAILED DUMP DETAILS" section of the email report. VERBOSE Default: "NO". If "YES", ambsdtar print more verbose debugging message and can leave temporary files in AMANDA_TMPDIR. INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE LISTS This application supplies exclude lists via the GNU-tar--exclude-from op- tion. This option accepts normal shell-style wildcard expressions, using * to match any number of characters and ? to match a single character. Char- acter classes are represented with [..], which will match any of the char- acters in the brackets. Expressions can be "anchored" to the base directory of the DLE by prefixing them with "./". Without this prefix, they will match at any directory level. Expressions that begin or end with a "/" will not match anything: to completely exclude a directory, do not include the trailing slash. Example expressions: ./temp-files # exclude top-level directory entirely ./temp-files/ # BAD: does nothing /temp-files # BAD: does nothing ./temp-files/* # exclude directory contents; include directory temp-files # exclude anything named "temp-files" generated-* # exclude anything beginning with "generated-" *.iso # exclude ISO files proxy/local/cache # exclude "cache" in dir "local" in "proxy" Similarly, include expressions are supplied to GNU-tar's --files-from op- tion. This option ordinarily does not accept any sort of wildcards, but ambsdtar "manually" applies glob pattern matching to include expressions with only one slash. The expressions must still begin with "./", so this effectively only allows expressions like "./[abc]*" or "./*.txt". EXAMPLE define application-tool app_ambsdtar { plugin "ambsdtar" property "BSDTAR-PATH" "/bin/bsdtar" property "STATE-DIR" "/xxx/yyy" property "ONE-FILE-SYSTEM" "YES" property "TAR-BLOCKSIZE" "20" property "EXIT-HANDLING" "1=GOOD 2=BAD" # change a default NORMAL regex to a STRANGE regex. property "STRANGE" ": socket ignored$" # add three new IGNORE regex property "IGNORE" ": Directory is new$" property append "IGNORE" ": Directory has been renamed" property append "IGNORE" "file changed as we read it$" } A dumptype using this application might look like: define dumptype ambsdtar_app_dtyp { global program "APPLICATION" application "app_ambsdtar" } Note that the program parameter must be set to "APPLICATION" to use the ap- plication parameter. SEE ALSO amanda(8), tar(1), amanda.conf(5), amanda-applications(7) The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/ AUTHORS Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Amanda 3.5.1 12/01/2017 AMBSDTAR(8)
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