1AMRECOVER(8)            System Administration Commands            AMRECOVER(8)
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NAME

6       amrecover - Amanda index database browser
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SYNOPSIS

9       amrecover [-s index-server] [-t tape-server] [-d tape-device]
10                 [-h hostname] [-o configoption...] [-C config]
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DESCRIPTION

13       Amrecover browses the database of Amanda index files to determine which
14       tapes contain files to recover. Furthermore, it is able to recover
15       files.
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17       In order to restore files in place, you must invoke amrecover from the
18       root of the backed up filesystem, or use lcd to move into that
19       directory, otherwise a directory tree that resembles the backed up
20       filesystem will be created in the current directory. See the examples
21       below for details.
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23       Amrecover will read the amanda-client.conf file and the
24       config/amanda-client.conf file. If no configuration name is supplied on
25       the command line, Amrecover will try the compiled-in default
26       configuration ,usually DailySet1.
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28       See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.
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OPTIONS

31           Note
32           The Default values are those set at compile-time. Use amrestore to
33           recover client-encrypted or client-custom-compressed tapes.
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35       [ -C ] config
36           Amanda configuration.
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38       -s index-server
39           Host that runs the index daemon.
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41       -t tape-server
42           Host that runs the tape server daemon.
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44       -d tape-device
45           Tape device to use on the tape server host.
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47       -h hostname
48           Hostname to begin restoring; defaults to the system's hostname.
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50       -o clientconfigoption
51           See the "CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE" section in amanda(8).
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AUTH

54       The default auth is 'BSDTCP', you can set a different auth in the
55       amanda-client.conf file or by specifying the '-oauth=bsd' command line
56       argument.
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COMMANDS

59       Amrecover connects to the index server and then presents a command line
60       prompt. Usage is similar to an ftp client. The GNU readline library is
61       used to provide command line history and editing if it was built in to
62       amrecover.
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64       The purpose of browsing the database is to build up a restore list of
65       files to be extracted from the backup system. The following commands
66       are available:
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68       sethost hostname
69           Specifies which host to look at backup files for (default: the
70           local host).
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72       setdate YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM[-SS] | YYYY-MM-DD
73           Set the restore time (default: now). File listing commands only
74           return information on backup images for this day, for the day
75           before with the next lower dump level, and so on, until the most
76           recent level 0 backup on or before the specified date is
77           encountered.
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79           For example, if:
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81               1996-07-01 was a level 0 backup
82               1996-07-02 through 1996-07-05 were level 1 backups
83               1996-07-06 through 1997-07-08 were level 2 backups
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85           then the command setdate 1997-07-08-00 would yield files from the
86           following days:
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88               1997-07-08 (the latest level 2 backup)
89               1997-07-05 (the latest level 1 backup)
90               1997-07-01 (the latest level 0 backup)
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92           Only the most recent version of a file will be presented.
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94           The following abbreviated date specifications are accepted:
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96           --MM-DD
97               dates in the current year
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99           ---DD
100               dates in the current month of the current year
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102       setdisk diskname [mountpoint]
103           Specifies which disk to consider (default: the disk holding the
104           working directory where amrecover is started). It can only be set
105           after the host is set with sethost.  Diskname is the device name
106           specified in the amanda.conf or disklist(5). The disk must be local
107           to the host. If mountpoint is not specified, all pathnames will be
108           relative to the (unknown) mount point instead of full pathnames.
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110       listhost [diskdevice]
111           List all host
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113       listdisk [diskdevice]
114           List all diskname
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116       storage [storage-name]*
117           The name of the storage in order of preference, use 'HOLDING' for
118           the holding disk.
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120       listproperty
121           List all property
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123       setproperty [append] [priority] name [value ...]
124           Set the property name to the value value. The append keyword
125           appends the value to the values already set for this property.
126           Without value, the property is unset. The priority keyword is
127           unused, it is present for ease of copy/paste from application
128           definition.
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130       setdevice [[-h tape-server] tapedev]
131           Specifies the host to use as the tape server, and which of its tape
132           devices to use. If the server is omitted, the server name reverts
133           to the configure-time default. If the tape device is omitted, the
134           default is used.
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136           If you want amrecover to use your changer, the tapedev must be
137           equal to the amrecover-changer setting on the server.
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139           Since device names contain colons, you must always specify the
140           hostname.
141           settape 192.168.0.10:file:/file1
142           You can change the tape device when amrecover ask you to load the
143           tape:
144           Load tape DMP014 now
145           Continue? [Y/n/t]: t
146           Tape device: server2:/dev/nst2
147           Continue? [Y/n/t]: Y
148           Using tape /dev/nst2 from server server2.
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150       setmode mode
151           Set the extraction mode for Samba shares. If mode is smb, shares
152           are sent to the Samba server to be restored back onto the PC. If
153           mode is tar, they are extracted on the local machine the same way
154           tar volumes are extracted.
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156       settranslate [on|off]
157           Default: on. Translate escaped octal value ('\000') in the index
158           file to their corespondig characters, it improve the interface if
159           amrecover is run in the same charset as the filename. Set it to off
160           if the charset of some filename is not compatible with the
161           amrecover charset.
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163       mode
164           Displays the extracting mode for Samba shares.
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166       history
167           Show the backup history of the current host and disk. Dates,
168           levels, tapes and file position on tape of each backup are
169           displayed.
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171       pwd
172           Display the name of the current backup working directory.
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174       cd dir
175           Change the backup working directory to dir.  If the mount point was
176           specified with setdisk, this can be a full pathname or it can be
177           relative to the current backup working directory. If the mount
178           point was not specified, paths are relative to the mount point if
179           they start with "/", otherwise they are relative to the current
180           backup working directory. The dir can be a shell style wildcards.
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182       cdx dir
183           Like the cd command but allow regular expression.
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185       lpwd
186           Display the amrecover working directory. Files will be restored
187           under this directory, relative to the backed up filesystem.
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189       lcd path
190           Change the amrecover working directory to path.
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192       ls
193           List the contents of the current backup working directory. See the
194           description of the setdate command for how the view of the
195           directory is built up. The backup date is shown for each file.
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197       add item1 item2 ...
198           Add the specified files or directories to the restore list. Each
199           item may have shell style wildcards.
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201       addx item1 item2 ...
202           Add the specified files or directories to the restore list. Each
203           item may be a regular expression.
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205       delete item1 item2 ...
206           Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list.
207           Each item may have shell style wildcards.
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209       deletex item1 item2 ...
210           Delete the specified files or directories from the restore list.
211           Each item may be a regular expression.
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213       list file
214           Display the contents of the restore list. If a file name is
215           specified, the restore list is written to that file. This can be
216           used to manually extract the files from the Amanda tapes with
217           amrestore.
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219       clear
220           Clear the restore list.
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222       quit
223           Close the connection to the index server and exit.
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225       exit
226           Close the connection to the index server and exit.
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228       extract
229           Start the extract sequence (see the examples below). Make sure the
230           local working directory is the root of the backed up filesystem, or
231           another directory that will behave like that. Use lpwd to display
232           the local working directory, and lcd to change it.
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234       help
235           Display a brief list of these commands.
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EXAMPLES

238       The following shows the recovery of an old syslog file.
239       # cd /var/log
240       # ls -l syslog.7
241       syslog.7: No such file or directory
242       # amrecover MyConfig
243       AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
244       220 oops Amanda index server (2.4.2) ready.
245       Setting restore date to today (1997-12-09)
246       200 Working date set to 1997-12-09.
247       200 Config set to MyConfig.
248       200 Dump host set to this-host.some.org.
249       $CWD '/var/log' is on disk '/var' mounted at '/var'.
250       200 Disk set to /var.
251       /var/log
252       WARNING: not on root of selected filesystem, check man-page!
253       amrecover> ls
254       1997-12-09 daemon.log
255       1997-12-09 syslog
256       1997-12-08 authlog
257       1997-12-08 sysidconfig.log
258       1997-12-08 syslog.0
259       1997-12-08 syslog.1
260       1997-12-08 syslog.2
261       1997-12-08 syslog.3
262       1997-12-08 syslog.4
263       1997-12-08 syslog.5
264       1997-12-08 syslog.6
265       1997-12-08 syslog.7
266       amrecover> add syslog.7
267       Added /log/syslog.7
268       amrecover> lpwd
269       /var/log
270       amrecover> lcd ..
271       /var
272       amrecover> extract
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274       Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192.168.0.10
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276       The following tapes are needed: DMP014
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278       Restoring files into directory /var
279       Continue? [Y/n]: y
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281       Load tape DMP014 now
282       Continue? [Y/n/t]: y
283       set owner/mode for '.'? [yn] n
284       amrecover> quit
285       200 Good bye.
286       # ls -l syslog.7
287       total 26
288       -rw-r--r--   1 root     other      12678 Oct 14 16:36 syslog.7
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290       If you do not want to overwrite existing files, create a subdirectory
291       to run amrecover from and then move the restored files afterward.
292       # cd /var
293       # (umask 077 ; mkdir .restore)
294       # cd .restore
295       # amrecover
296       AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
297       ...
298       amrecover> cd log
299       /var/log
300       amrecover> ls
301       ...
302       amrecover> add syslog.7
303       Added /log/syslog.7
304       amrecover> lpwd
305       /var/.restore
306       amrecover> extract
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308       Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 192.168.0.10
309       ...
310       amrecover> quit
311       200 Good bye.
312       # mv -i log/syslog.7 ../log/syslog.7-restored
313       # cd ..
314       # rm -fr .restore
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316       If you need to run amrestore by hand instead of letting amrecover
317       control it, use the list command after browsing to display the needed
318       tapes.
319       # cd /var/log
320       # amrecover
321       AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
322       ...
323       amrecover> ls
324       ...
325       amrecover> add syslog syslog.6 syslog.7
326       Added /log/syslog
327       Added /log/syslog.6
328       Added /log/syslog.7
329       amrecover> list
330       TAPE DMP014 LEVEL 0 DATE 1997-12-08
331               /log/syslog.7
332               /log/syslog.6
333       TAPE DMP015 LEVEL 1 DATE 1997-12-09
334               /log/syslog
335       amrecover> quit
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337       The history command shows each tape that has a backup of the current
338       disk along with the date of the backup, the level, the tape label and
339       the file position on the tape. All active tapes are listed, not just
340       back to the most recent full dump.
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342       Tape file position zero is a label. The first backup image is in file
343       position one.
344       # cd /var/log
345       # amrecover
346       AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on oops ...
347       ...
348       amrecover> history
349       200- Dump history for config "MyConfig" host "this-host.some.org" disk "/var"
350       201- 1997-12-09 1 DMP015 9
351       201- 1997-12-08 1 DMP014 11
352       201- 1997-12-07 0 DMP013 22
353       201- 1997-12-06 1 DMP012 16
354       201- 1997-12-05 1 DMP011 9
355       201- 1997-12-04 0 DMP010 11
356       201- 1997-12-03 1 DMP009 7
357       201- 1997-12-02 1 DMP008 7
358       201- 1997-12-01 1 DMP007 9
359       201- 1997-11-30 1 DMP006 6
360       ...
361       amrecover> quit
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ENVIRONMENT

364       PAGER The ls and list commands will use $PAGER to display the file
365       lists. Defaults to more if PAGER is not set.
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367       AMANDA_SERVER If set, $AMANDA_SERVER will be used as index-server. The
368       value will take precedence over the compiled default, but will be
369       overridden by the -s switch.
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371       AMANDA_TAPE_SERVER If set, $AMANDA_TAPE_SERVER will be used as
372       tape-server. The value will take precedence over the compiled default,
373       but will be overridden by the -t switch.
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SEE ALSO

376       amanda(8), amanda-client.conf(5), amrestore(8), amfetchdump(8),
377       readline(3)
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379       The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/
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AUTHORS

382       Alan M. McIvor <alan@kauri.auck.irl.cri.nz>
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384       Stefan G. Weichinger <sgw@amanda.org>
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388Amanda 3.5.4                      07/27/2023                      AMRECOVER(8)
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