Amanda-client.conf
NAME
amanda-client.conf - Client configuration file for Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
DESCRIPTION
amanda-client.conf is the client configuration file for Amanda. This manpage lists the relevant sections and parameters of this file for quick reference.
The files <CONFIG_DIR>/amanda-client.conf and <CONFIG_DIR>/<config>/amanda-client.conf are loaded.
PARAMETERS
There are a number of configuration parameters that control the behavior of the Amanda programs. All have default values, so you need not specify the parameter in amanda-client.conf if the default is suitable.
Lines starting with # are ignored, as are blank lines. Comments may be placed on a line with a directive by starting the comment with a #. The remainder of the line is ignored.
Keywords are case insensitive, i.e. auth and Auth are treated the same.
Integer arguments may have one of the following (case insensitive) suffixes, some of which have a multiplier effect:
POSSIBLE SUFFIXES
- b byte bytes
- Some number of bytes.
- bps
- Some number of bytes per second.
- k kb kbyte kbytes kilobyte kilobytes
- Some number of kilobytes (bytes*1024).
- kps kbps
- Some number of kilobytes per second (bytes*1024).
- m mb meg mbyte mbytes megabyte megabytes
- Some number of megabytes (bytes*1024*1024).
- mps mbps
- Some number of megabytes per second (bytes*1024*1024).
- g gb gbyte gbytes gigabyte gigabytes
- Some number of gigabytes (bytes*1024*1024*1024).
- tape tapes
- Some number of tapes.
- day days
- Some number of days.
- week weeks
- Some number of weeks (days*7).
Note
The value inf may be used in most places where an integer is expected to mean an infinite amount.
Boolean arguments may have any of the values y, yes, t, true or on to indicate a true state, or n, no, f, false or off to indicate a false state. If no argument is given, true is assumed.
PARAMETERS
- conf string
- Default: Set by configure. The conf use by amrecover.
- index_server string
- Default: Set by configure. The amindexd server amrecover will connect to.
- tape_server string
- Default: Set by configure. The amidxtaped server amrecover will connect to.
- tapedev string
- Default: Set by configure. The tapedev amrecover will use.
- auth string
- Default: bsd. Type of authorization to perform between tape server and backup client hosts.
- bsd bsd authorization with udp initial connection and one tcp connection by data stream.
- bsdtcp bsd authorization but use only one tcp connection.
- bsdudp like bsd, but will use only one tcp connection for all data stream.
- krb4 to use Kerberos-IV authorization.
- krb5 to use Kerberos-V authorization.
- rsh to use rsh authorization.
- ssh to use OpenSSH authorization.
- ssh_keys string
- Default: No default. The key file the ssh auth will use, it must be the private key. If this parameter is not specified, then the default ssh key will be used.
- gnutar_list_dir string
- Default: <configure parameter --with-gnutar-listdir=DIR>. The directory where gnutar keep its state file.
- amandates string
- Default: /etc/amandates. The file where amanda keep the last date of each dump level.
- connect_tries int
- Default: 3. How many times the server will try a connection.
- rep_tries int
- Default: 5. How many times amandad will resend a REP packet if it doesn't get the ACK packet.
- debug_amandad int
- Default:0. Debug level of the amandad process.
- debug_amidxtaped int
- Default:0. Debug level of the amidxtaped process.
- debug_amindexd int
- Default:0. Debug level of the amindexd process.
- debug_amrecover int
- Default: 0. Debug level of amrecover process.
- debug_auth int
- Default: 0. Debug level of the auth module.
- debug_event int
- Default: 0. Debug level of the event module.
- debug_holding int
- Default: 0. Debug level of the holding disk module.
- debug_protocol int
- Default: 0. Debug level of the protocol module.
- debug_selfcheck int
- Default: 0. Debug level of the selfcheck process.
- debug_sendsize int
- Default: 0. Debug level of the sendsize process.
- debug_sendbackup int
- Default: 0. Debug level of the sendbackup process.
AUTHOR
James da Silva, <[email protected]>: Original text
Stefan G. Weichinger, <[email protected]>, maintainer of the Amanda-documentation: XML-conversion, major update, splitting
SEE ALSO
amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), amcrypt(8), aespipe(1),