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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] [--src-timestamp src-timestamp]
               --label-template label-template --dst-changer dst-changer
               [--autolabel autolabel-arg...]
               config
               [hostname [ disk [ date [ level [ hostname [...] ] ] ] ]]

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 data from the run with timestamp src-timestamp onto
       volumes using the changer dst-changer, and labeling new volumes with
       label-template.

   Secondary Media
       The dumps to be read from secondary media can be specified by any
       combination of dump specifications, --fulls-only, --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 --dst-changer must be specified, and names the changer in which
       tertiary media are stored.

       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
       --autolabel [any] [other-config] [non-amanda] [volume-error] [empty]
           Works just like the autolabel parameter in amanda.conf(5), and can
           be specified multiple times if necessary. The default is 'empty'.

       --dst-changer dst-changer
           Specifies the changer in which tertiary media are stored. In
           general, this should be different from the secondary changer, to
           eliminate the possibility of overwriting secondary media with
           tertiary data.

           The dst-changer parameter should specify the name of a changer
           defined in amanda.conf(5). For example:

           define changer vaulting_tape {
               tapedev "/dev/rmt/1n"
               tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx"
               changerdev "/dev/sg0"
               changerfile "vaulting-changer.conf"
           }

       --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 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.

       --label-template label-template
           Specifies a label template which is used to generate new labels for
           tertiary volumes.

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

       --quiet, -q
           Eliminate non-error messages, and is useful when running amvault
           from cron.

       --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 --label-template "CONF-%%%" --dst-changer vault-changer CONF

       Vault all dump written on the run of December 7 2011 12:13:14 :
       $ amvault --src-timestamps 20111207121314 --label-template "CONF-%%%" --dst-changer vault-changer CONF

       Vault all dump dumped on any run of December 7 2011:
       $ amvault --label-template "CONF-%%%" --dst-changer vault-changer 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 3.3.6                      07/09/2014                        AMVAULT(8)