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.\" Title: amrecover
.\" Author: Alan M. McIvor <alan@kauri.auck.irl.cri.nz>
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.\" Date: 12/01/2017
.\" Manual: System Administration Commands
.\" Source: Amanda 3.5.1
.\" Language: English
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.TH "AMRECOVER" "8" "12/01/2017" "Amanda 3\&.5\&.1" "System Administration Commands"
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.SH "NAME"
amrecover \- Amanda index database browser
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBamrecover\fR\ 'u
\fBamrecover\fR [\-s\ \fIindex\-server\fR] [\-t\ \fItape\-server\fR] [\-d\ \fItape\-device\fR] [\-h\ \fIhostname\fR] [\fB\-o\fR\ \fIconfigoption\fR...] [\-C\ \fIconfig\fR]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBAmrecover\fR
browses the database of Amanda index files to determine which tapes contain files to recover\&. Furthermore, it is able to recover files\&.
.PP
In order to restore files in place, you must invoke
\fBamrecover\fR
from the root of the backed up filesystem, or use
\fBlcd\fR
to move into that directory, otherwise a directory tree that resembles the backed up filesystem will be created in the current directory\&. See the examples below for details\&.
.PP
Amrecover will read the
\fBamanda\-client\&.conf\fR
file and the
\fIconfig\fR\fB/amanda\-client\&.conf\fR
file\&. If no configuration name is supplied on the command line, Amrecover will try the compiled\-in default configuration ,usually
\fBDailySet1\fR\&.
.PP
See the
\fBamanda\fR(8)
man page for more details about Amanda\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.if n \{\
.sp
.\}
.RS 4
.it 1 an-trap
.nr an-no-space-flag 1
.nr an-break-flag 1
.br
.ps +1
\fBNote\fR
.ps -1
.br
.PP
The Default values are those set at compile\-time\&. Use
\fBamrestore\fR
to recover client\-encrypted or client\-custom\-compressed tapes\&.
.sp .5v
.RE
.PP
\fB[ \-C ] config\fR
.RS 4
Amanda configuration\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-s index\-server\fR
.RS 4
Host that runs the index daemon\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-t tape\-server\fR
.RS 4
Host that runs the tape server daemon\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-d tape\-device\fR
.RS 4
Tape device to use on the tape server host\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-h hostname\fR
.RS 4
Hostname to begin restoring; defaults to the system\*(Aqs hostname\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-o\fR \fIclientconfigoption\fR
.RS 4
See the "\fBCONFIGURATION OVERRIDE\fR" section in
\fBamanda\fR(8)\&.
.RE
.SH "AUTH"
.PP
The default
\fBauth\fR
is \*(AqBSDTCP\*(Aq, you can set a different auth in the
\fBamanda\-client\&.conf\fR
file or by specifying the \*(Aq\-oauth=bsd\*(Aq command line argument\&.
.SH "COMMANDS"
.PP
\fBAmrecover\fR
connects to the index server and then presents a command line prompt\&. Usage is similar to an ftp client\&. The GNU readline library is used to provide command line history and editing if it was built in to
\fBamrecover\fR\&.
.PP
The purpose of browsing the database is to build up a
\fIrestore list\fR
of files to be extracted from the backup system\&. The following commands are available:
.PP
\fBsethost hostname\fR
.RS 4
Specifies which host to look at backup files for (default: the local host)\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBsetdate YYYY\-MM\-DD\-HH\-MM[\-SS] | YYYY\-MM\-DD\fR
.RS 4
Set the restore time (default: now)\&. File listing commands only return information on backup images for this day, for the day before with the next lower dump level, and so on, until the most recent level 0 backup on or before the specified date is encountered\&.
.sp
For example, if:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
1996\-07\-01 was a level 0 backup
1996\-07\-02 through 1996\-07\-05 were level 1 backups
1996\-07\-06 through 1997\-07\-08 were level 2 backups
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.sp
then the command
\fBsetdate 1997\-07\-08\-00\fR
would yield files from the following days:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
1997\-07\-08 (the latest level 2 backup)
1997\-07\-05 (the latest level 1 backup)
1997\-07\-01 (the latest level 0 backup)
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.sp
Only the most recent version of a file will be presented\&.
.sp
The following abbreviated date specifications are accepted:
.PP
\fB\-\-MM\-DD\fR
.RS 4
dates in the current year
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-\-DD\fR
.RS 4
dates in the current month of the current year
.RE
.RE
.PP
\fBsetdisk\fR \fIdiskname\fR [\fImountpoint\fR]
.RS 4
Specifies which disk to consider (default: the disk holding the working directory where
\fBamrecover\fR
is started)\&. It can only be set after the host is set with
\fBsethost\fR\&.
\fIDiskname\fR
is the device name specified in the
\fIamanda\&.conf\fR
or
\fBdisklist\fR(5)\&. The disk must be local to the host\&. If
\fImountpoint\fR
is not specified, all pathnames will be relative to the (unknown) mount point instead of full pathnames\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBlisthost\fR [\fIdiskdevice\fR]
.RS 4
List all
\fBhost\fR
.RE
.PP
\fBlistdisk\fR [\fIdiskdevice\fR]
.RS 4
List all
\fBdiskname\fR
.RE
.PP
\fBstorage\fR [\fIstorage\-name\fR]*
.RS 4
The name of the
\fBstorage\fR
in order of preference, use \*(AqHOLDING\*(Aq for the holding disk\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBlistproperty\fR
.RS 4
List all
\fBproperty\fR
.RE
.PP
\fBsetproperty\fR [\fBappend\fR] [\fBpriority\fR] \fIname\fR [\fIvalue\fR \&.\&.\&.]
.RS 4
Set the property
\fIname\fR
to the value
\fIvalue\fR\&. The
\fBappend\fR
keyword appends the
\fIvalue\fR
to the values already set for this property\&. Without
\fIvalue\fR, the property is unset\&. The
\fBpriority\fR
keyword is unused, it is present for ease of copy/paste from application definition\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBsetdevice\fR [[\-h \fItape\-server\fR] \fItapedev\fR]
.RS 4
Specifies the host to use as the tape server, and which of its tape devices to use\&. If the server is omitted, the server name reverts to the configure\-time default\&. If the tape device is omitted, the default is used\&.
.sp
If you want amrecover to use your changer, the
\fItapedev\fR
must be equal to the
\fBamrecover\-changer\fR
setting on the server\&.
.sp
Since device names contain colons, you must always specify the hostname\&.
.nf
settape 192\&.168\&.0\&.10:file:/file1
.fi
You can change the tape device when amrecover ask you to load the tape:
.nf
Load tape DMP014 now
Continue? [Y/n/t]: t
Tape device: server2:/dev/nst2
Continue? [Y/n/t]: Y
Using tape /dev/nst2 from server server2\&.
.fi
.RE
.PP
\fBsetmode\fR \fImode\fR
.RS 4
Set the extraction mode for Samba shares\&. If
\fImode\fR
is
\fBsmb\fR, shares are sent to the Samba server to be restored back onto the PC\&. If
\fImode\fR
is
\fBtar\fR, they are extracted on the local machine the same way tar volumes are extracted\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBsettranslate\fR [\fBon\fR|\fBoff\fR]
.RS 4
Default: on\&. Translate escaped octal value (\*(Aq\e000\*(Aq) in the index file to their corespondig characters, it improve the interface if amrecover is run in the same charset as the filename\&. Set it to
\fBoff\fR
if the charset of some filename is not compatible with the amrecover charset\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBmode\fR
.RS 4
Displays the extracting mode for Samba shares\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBhistory\fR
.RS 4
Show the backup history of the current host and disk\&. Dates, levels, tapes and file position on tape of each backup are displayed\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBpwd\fR
.RS 4
Display the name of the current backup working directory\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBcd\fR \fIdir\fR
.RS 4
Change the backup working directory to
\fIdir\&.\fR
If the mount point was specified with
\fBsetdisk\fR, this can be a full pathname or it can be relative to the current backup working directory\&. If the mount point was not specified, paths are relative to the mount point if they start with "/", otherwise they are relative to the current backup working directory\&. The
\fIdir\fR
can be a shell style wildcards\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBcdx\fR \fIdir\fR
.RS 4
Like the
\fBcd\fR
command but allow regular expression\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBlpwd\fR
.RS 4
Display the
\fBamrecover\fR
working directory\&. Files will be restored under this directory, relative to the backed up filesystem\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBlcd\fR \fIpath\fR
.RS 4
Change the
\fBamrecover\fR
working directory to
\fIpath\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBls\fR
.RS 4
List the contents of the current backup working directory\&. See the description of the
\fBsetdate\fR
command for how the view of the directory is built up\&. The backup date is shown for each file\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBadd\fR \fIitem1 item2 \&.\&.\&.\fR
.RS 4
Add the specified files or directories to the restore list\&. Each item may have shell style wildcards\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBaddx\fR \fIitem1 item2 \&.\&.\&.\fR
.RS 4
Add the specified files or directories to the restore list\&. Each item may be a regular expression\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBdelete\fR \fIitem1 item2 \&.\&.\&.\fR
.RS 4
Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list\&. Each item may have shell style wildcards\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBdeletex\fR \fIitem1 item2 \&.\&.\&.\fR
.RS 4
Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list\&. Each item may be a regular expression\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBlist\fR \fIfile\fR
.RS 4
Display the contents of the restore list\&. If a file name is specified, the restore list is written to that file\&. This can be used to manually extract the files from the Amanda tapes with
\fBamrestore\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBclear\fR
.RS 4
Clear the restore list\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBquit\fR
.RS 4
Close the connection to the index server and exit\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBexit\fR
.RS 4
Close the connection to the index server and exit\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBextract\fR
.RS 4
Start the extract sequence (see the examples below)\&. Make sure the local working directory is the root of the backed up filesystem, or another directory that will behave like that\&. Use
\fBlpwd\fR
to display the local working directory, and
\fBlcd\fR
to change it\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBhelp\fR
.RS 4
Display a brief list of these commands\&.
.RE
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.PP
The following shows the recovery of an old
\fIsyslog\fR
file\&.
.nf
# cd /var/log
# ls \-l syslog\&.7
syslog\&.7: No such file or directory
# amrecover MyConfig
AMRECOVER Version 2\&.4\&.2\&. Contacting server on oops \&.\&.\&.
220 oops Amanda index server (2\&.4\&.2) ready\&.
Setting restore date to today (1997\-12\-09)
200 Working date set to 1997\-12\-09\&.
200 Config set to MyConfig\&.
200 Dump host set to this\-host\&.some\&.org\&.
$CWD \*(Aq/var/log\*(Aq is on disk \*(Aq/var\*(Aq mounted at \*(Aq/var\*(Aq\&.
200 Disk set to /var\&.
/var/log
WARNING: not on root of selected filesystem, check man\-page!
amrecover> ls
1997\-12\-09 daemon\&.log
1997\-12\-09 syslog
1997\-12\-08 authlog
1997\-12\-08 sysidconfig\&.log
1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.0
1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.1
1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.2
1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.3
1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.4
1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.5
1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.6
1997\-12\-08 syslog\&.7
amrecover> add syslog\&.7
Added /log/syslog\&.7
amrecover> lpwd
/var/log
amrecover> lcd \&.\&.
/var
amrecover> extract
Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192\&.168\&.0\&.10
The following tapes are needed: DMP014
Restoring files into directory /var
Continue? [Y/n]: y
Load tape DMP014 now
Continue? [Y/n/t]: y
set owner/mode for \*(Aq\&.\*(Aq? [yn] n
amrecover> quit
200 Good bye\&.
# ls \-l syslog\&.7
total 26
\-rw\-r\-\-r\-\- 1 root other 12678 Oct 14 16:36 syslog\&.7
.fi
.PP
If you do not want to overwrite existing files, create a subdirectory to run
\fBamrecover\fR
from and then move the restored files afterward\&.
.nf
# cd /var
# (umask 077 ; mkdir \&.restore)
# cd \&.restore
# amrecover
AMRECOVER Version 2\&.4\&.2\&. Contacting server on oops \&.\&.\&.
\&.\&.\&.
amrecover> cd log
/var/log
amrecover> ls
\&.\&.\&.
amrecover> add syslog\&.7
Added /log/syslog\&.7
amrecover> lpwd
/var/\&.restore
amrecover> extract
Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192\&.168\&.0\&.10
\&.\&.\&.
amrecover> quit
200 Good bye\&.
# mv \-i log/syslog\&.7 \&.\&./log/syslog\&.7\-restored
# cd \&.\&.
# rm \-fr \&.restore
.fi
.PP
If you need to run
\fBamrestore\fR
by hand instead of letting
\fBamrecover\fR
control it, use the
\fBlist\fR
command after browsing to display the needed tapes\&.
.nf
# cd /var/log
# amrecover
AMRECOVER Version 2\&.4\&.2\&. Contacting server on oops \&.\&.\&.
\&.\&.\&.
amrecover> ls
\&.\&.\&.
amrecover> add syslog syslog\&.6 syslog\&.7
Added /log/syslog
Added /log/syslog\&.6
Added /log/syslog\&.7
amrecover> list
TAPE DMP014 LEVEL 0 DATE 1997\-12\-08
/log/syslog\&.7
/log/syslog\&.6
TAPE DMP015 LEVEL 1 DATE 1997\-12\-09
/log/syslog
amrecover> quit
.fi
.PP
The
\fBhistory\fR
command shows each tape that has a backup of the current disk along with the date of the backup, the level, the tape label and the file position on the tape\&. All active tapes are listed, not just back to the most recent full dump\&.
.PP
Tape file position zero is a label\&. The first backup image is in file position one\&.
.nf
# cd /var/log
# amrecover
AMRECOVER Version 2\&.4\&.2\&. Contacting server on oops \&.\&.\&.
\&.\&.\&.
amrecover> history
200\- Dump history for config "MyConfig" host "this\-host\&.some\&.org" disk "/var"
201\- 1997\-12\-09 1 DMP015 9
201\- 1997\-12\-08 1 DMP014 11
201\- 1997\-12\-07 0 DMP013 22
201\- 1997\-12\-06 1 DMP012 16
201\- 1997\-12\-05 1 DMP011 9
201\- 1997\-12\-04 0 DMP010 11
201\- 1997\-12\-03 1 DMP009 7
201\- 1997\-12\-02 1 DMP008 7
201\- 1997\-12\-01 1 DMP007 9
201\- 1997\-11\-30 1 DMP006 6
\&.\&.\&.
amrecover> quit
.fi
.SH "ENVIRONMENT"
.PP
\fBPAGER\fRThe
\fBls\fR
and
\fBlist\fR
commands will use $PAGER to display the file lists\&. Defaults to
\fImore\fR
if PAGER is not set\&.
.PP
\fBAMANDA_SERVER\fR
If set, $AMANDA_SERVER will be used as index\-server\&. The value will take precedence over the compiled default, but will be overridden by the \-s switch\&.
.PP
\fBAMANDA_TAPE_SERVER\fR
If set, $AMANDA_TAPE_SERVER will be used as tape\-server\&. The value will take precedence over the compiled default, but will be overridden by the \-t switch\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBamanda\fR(8),
\fBamanda-client.conf\fR(5),
\fBamrestore\fR(8),
\fBamfetchdump\fR(8),
\fBreadline\fR(3)
.PP
The Amanda Wiki:
: http://wiki.zmanda.com/
.SH "AUTHORS"
.PP
\fBAlan M\&. McIvor\fR <\&alan@kauri\&.auck\&.irl\&.cri\&.nz\&>
.PP
\fBStefan G\&. Weichinger\fR <\&sgw@amanda\&.org\&>