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] [--no-interactivity]
               [--src-timestamp src-timestamp]
               [--src-storage src-storage] [--dest-storage dest-storage] config
               [hostname [ disk [ date [ level [ hostname [dumpspec...] ] ] ] ]]

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 dumps selected by the specified filters onto volumes on the storage
       dest-storage.

   Secondary Media
       The dumps to be read from secondary media can be specified by any combination of dump
       specifications, --fulls-only, --latest-fulls, --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 amvault-storage is the default destination storage.

       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

       --dest-storage dest-storage
           The vaulted dumps are written to the specified storage.

           If the vault-storage option is specified in amanda.conf(5), amvault will use that
           storage as the default destination. If not, a destination storage must be specified on
           the amvault command line.

       --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 names in the dumpspecs 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.

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

       --no-interactivity
           Disable interactivity if a source or destination volume is not found.

       --quiet, -q
           Suppress the progress messages normally printed to the terminal as dumps are being
           copied.

       --src-labelstr labelstr
           Only dumps from volumes matching labelstr are copied.

           labelstr is a Perl regular expression, and will be matched as a substring of the
           volume labels -- it may be necessary to anchor the labelstr with "^" and/or "$" in
           order to prevent undesired partial matches.

           Also note that if a dump is split across multiple volumes and labelstr matches only
           one of those volumes, amvault will not select that dump for copying. For this reason,
           it is generally safer to to select dumps directly using other filters, in which case
           amvault will be able to retrieve parts of split dumps from whatever volume they were
           originally written to.

       --src-storage src-storage
           Only dumps found on the specified storage are copied. (If this option is not given,
           all available source storages will be searched.)

       --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 CONF

       Vault all dump written on the run of December 7 2011 12:13:14 :
       $ amvault --src-timestamps 20111207121314 CONF

       Vault all dump dumped on any run of December 7 2011:
       $ amvault 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)