Ubuntu Manpage: ambsdtar - Amanda Application to interface with BSD Tar

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NAME

       ambsdtar - Amanda Application to interface with BSD Tar

DESCRIPTION

       Ambsdtar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses BSD Tar to
       backup and restore data.

       The diskdevice in the disklist (DLE) must be the directory to backup.

       Extracting backup never remove files. If a file where present in the level 0 backup, you removed it, made
       a level 1 backup, then after extracting both levels, the file will be present.

PROPERTIES

This section lists the properties that control ambsdtar's functionality. See amanda-applications(7) for
information on application properties and how they are configured.

COMMAND-OPTIONS
If set, theses options are passed asis to gtar. Each option must be a different value of the
property. Some option can break how amanda do backup, use it with care.

Use:
property "COMMAND-OPTIONS" "--foo" "bar"

Do not use:
property "COMMAND-OPTIONS" "--foo bar"

DIRECTORY

If set, bsdtar will backup from that directory instead of the diskdevice set by the DLE. On restore,
the data is restore in that directory instead of the current working directory.

SPARSE

If "YES", the default, it use the -S option of bsdtar when restoring to create sparse files.

STATE-DIR

The directory where ambsdtar stores the database it uses to generate incremental dumps. The default
is set when Amanda is built.

BSDTAR-PATH

The path to the bsdtar binary. The default is set when Amanda is built.

ONE-FILE-SYSTEM

If "YES" (the default), do not allow bsdtar to cross filesystem boundaries. If "NO", bsdtar will
cross filesystem boundaries. This corresponds to the --one-filesystem option of bsdtar.

TAR-BLOCKSIZE

Block size of Nx512 bytes (default N=20). This corresponds to the --blocking-factor option of
bsdtar.

EXIT-HANDLING

List which exit status of gtar are good or bad. eg. "1=GOOD 2=BAD", exit status of 1 will produce a
good backup, exit status of 2 will give an error.

NORMAL

List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that are normal output from gtar. These
output are in the "FAILED DUMP DETAILS" section of the email report if the dump result is STRANGE or
FAILED. Default values:
"^could not open conf file"
"^Elapsed time:"
"^Throughput"
": socket ignored$"
": File .* shrunk by [0-9][0-9]* bytes, padding with zeros"
": Cannot add file .*: No such file or directory$"
": Error exit delayed from previous errors"
To treat one of these default patterns differently, specify it explicitly in a different property.

IGNORE

List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that amanda ignore. These output are never
in the email report. Default values:
": Directory is new$"
": Directory has been renamed"
To treat one of these default patterns differently, specify it explicitly in a different property.

STRANGE

List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that are strange output from gtar. All gtar
output that doesn't match a normal or ignore regex are strange by default. The result of the dump is
STRANGE if gtar produce a strange output. These output are in the "FAILED DUMP DETAILS" section of
the email report.

VERBOSE

Default: "NO". If "YES", ambsdtar print more verbose debugging message and can leave temporary files
in AMANDA_TMPDIR.

INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE LISTS

This application supplies exclude lists via the GNU-tar--exclude-from option. This option accepts normal
shell-style wildcard expressions, using * to match any number of characters and ? to match a single
character. Character classes are represented with [..], which will match any of the characters in the
brackets. Expressions can be "anchored" to the base directory of the DLE by prefixing them with "./".
Without this prefix, they will match at any directory level. Expressions that begin or end with a "/"
will not match anything: to completely exclude a directory, do not include the trailing slash. Example
expressions:

./temp-files # exclude top-level directory entirely
./temp-files/ # BAD: does nothing
/temp-files # BAD: does nothing
./temp-files/* # exclude directory contents; include directory
temp-files # exclude anything named "temp-files"
generated-* # exclude anything beginning with "generated-"
*.iso # exclude ISO files
proxy/local/cache # exclude "cache" in dir "local" in "proxy"

Similarly, include expressions are supplied to GNU-tar's --files-from option. This option ordinarily does
not accept any sort of wildcards, but ambsdtar "manually" applies glob pattern matching to include
expressions with only one slash. The expressions must still begin with "./", so this effectively only
allows expressions like "./[abc]*" or "./*.txt".

EXAMPLE

         define application-tool app_ambsdtar {
           plugin "ambsdtar"

           property "BSDTAR-PATH" "/bin/bsdtar"
           property "STATE-DIR" "/xxx/yyy"
           property "ONE-FILE-SYSTEM" "YES"
           property "TAR-BLOCKSIZE" "20"
           property "EXIT-HANDLING" "1=GOOD 2=BAD"
           # change a default NORMAL regex to a STRANGE regex.
           property "STRANGE" ": socket ignored$"
           # add three new IGNORE regex
           property "IGNORE" ": Directory is new$"
           property append "IGNORE" ": Directory has been renamed"
           property append "IGNORE" "file changed as we read it$"
         }
       A dumptype using this application might look like:

         define dumptype ambsdtar_app_dtyp {
           global
           program "APPLICATION"
           application "app_ambsdtar"
         }
       Note that the program parameter must be set to "APPLICATION" to use the application parameter.

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