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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 re-
     vision 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 pro-
     vision 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 combina-
     tion 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-time-
     stamp, on the other hand, is the write timestamp - the  run  in  which  the
     dump  was	written to secondary media. The latter option facilitates dupli-
     cating 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 am-
     vault  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 ad-
     ditional 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 per-
	 form 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  im-
	 port/export  slots,  where they can be more easily removed by an opera-
	 tor.

     --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 skip-
	 strategy.

     --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 sub-
	 string of the volume labels -- it may be necessary to anchor the label-
	 str 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 re-
	 trieve  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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