AMANDA stands for Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver.
It's a backup solution, basically a single master backup server can be installed to back up multiple hosts
over network to tape drives/changers or disks.
It uses native utilities and formats (like dump, tar), so there are some scenarios how to restore without Amanda software.
[root@backup-server]# amrecover MyTeam-Daily1
AMRECOVER Version 3.3.7. Contacting server on localhost ...
220 backup-server AMANDA index server (3.3.7) ready.
Setting restore date to today (2015-06-04)
200 Working date set to 2015-06-04.
200 Config set to MyTeam-Daily1.
200 Dump host set to backup-server.company.com.
Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover
amrecover> help
valid commands are:
add path1 ... - add to extraction list (shell wildcards)
addx path1 ... - add to extraction list (regular expressions)
cd directory - change cwd on virtual file system (shell wildcards)
cdx directory - change cwd on virtual file system (regular expressions)
clear - clear extraction list
delete path1 ... - delete from extraction list (shell wildcards)
deletex path1 ... - delete from extraction list (regular expressions)
extract - extract selected files from tapes
exit
help
history - show dump history of disk
list [filename] - show extraction list, optionally writing to file
lcd directory - change cwd on local file system
ls - list directory on virtual file system
lpwd - show cwd on local file system
mode - show the method used to extract SMB shares
pwd - show cwd on virtual file system
quit
listhost - list hosts
listdisk [diskdevice] - list disks
listproperty - list property
setdate {YYYY-MM-DD|--MM-DD|---DD} - set date of look
{YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS} - set date of look
setdisk diskname [mountpoint] - select disk on dump host
sethost host - select dump host
setdevice [[-h host] device] - select tape server and/or device
setproperty [append] [priority] name [value ...] - set a property
setmode smb|tar - select the method used to extract SMB shares
settranslate [on|off] - set/unset translation of non-ASCII characters
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amrecover> sethost another-host 501 Host another-host is not in your disklist. Trying host another-host.company.com ... 200 Dump host set to another-host.company.com. |
amrecover> listdisk 200- List of disk for host another-host.company.com 201- /usr/local/sbin 200 List of disk for host another-host.company.com |
amrecover> setdisk /usr/local/sbin 200 Disk set to /usr/local/sbin. |
amrecover> history 200- Dump history for config "MyTeam-Daily1" host "another-host.company.com" disk /usr/local/sbin 201- 2015-06-03-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-003:3 201- 2015-06-02-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-002:3 201- 2015-06-01-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-001:3 201- 2015-05-29-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-025:3 201- 2015-05-28-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-024:3 201- 2015-05-27-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-023:2 201- 2015-05-26-19-30-02 1 MyTeam-Daily1-022:4 201- 2015-05-25-19-30-01 0 MyTeam-Daily1-021:3 201- 2015-05-22-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-020:3 201- 2015-05-21-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-019:3 201- 2015-05-20-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-018:3 201- 2015-05-19-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-017:2 201- 2015-05-18-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-016:2 201- 2015-05-15-19-30-02 1 MyTeam-Daily1-015:2 201- 2015-05-14-19-30-01 0 MyTeam-Daily1-014:3 201- 2015-05-13-19-30-02 1 MyTeam-Daily1-013:2 201- 2015-05-12-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-012:3 201- 2015-05-11-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-011:2 201- 2015-05-08-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-010:2 201- 2015-05-07-19-30-01 1 MyTeam-Daily1-009:3 201- 2015-05-06-19-30-02 1 MyTeam-Daily1-008:3 201- 2015-05-04-19-30-02 0 MyTeam-Daily1-006:1 200 Dump history for config "MyTeam-Daily1" host "another-host.company.com" disk /usr/local/sbin |
amrecover> setdate 2015-06-03 200 Working date set to 2015-06-03. |
amrecover> ls 2015-06-03-19-30-01 test-sync-to-zfs2 2015-06-03-19-30-01 sync-home 2015-06-03-19-30-01 sync-fs2-srv 2015-06-03-19-30-01 sync-zarko 2015-06-03-19-30-01 sync-dudic 2015-06-03-19-30-01 sync-milan 2015-06-03-19-30-01 sync-alisa 2015-06-03-19-30-01 suck-akiyo 2015-06-03-19-30-01 rsync-to-valjevo 2015-06-03-19-30-01 rsync-to-beograd 2015-06-03-19-30-01 rsync-to-osaka 2015-06-03-19-30-01 rsync-to-sakai 2015-06-03-19-30-01 backup.exp 2015-06-03-19-30-01 os-archive-external 2015-06-03-19-30-01 os-archive-prod3 2015-06-03-19-30-01 mk-users-solaris 2015-06-03-19-30-01 mk-users 2015-06-03-19-30-01 mk-alt-root 2015-06-03-19-30-01 maintain-svn-aliases 2015-06-03-19-30-01 get-vi-hg 2015-06-03-19-30-01 cp-raid-md0 2015-06-03-19-30-01 check-mounts <------- we need this one! 2015-06-03-19-30-01 ca-sync-ohoho-database 2015-06-03-19-30-01 ca-sync-hehe 2015-06-03-19-30-01 ca-sync-baba 2015-06-03-19-30-01 ca-sync-aaaaaa 2015-06-03-19-30-01 ca-sync-home-vivi 2015-06-03-19-30-01 ca-os-rsync-ca-ffffff 2015-06-03-19-30-01 ca-os-rsync-zzzzzzz 2015-06-03-19-30-01 ca-os-rsync-rrrrrrr 2015-06-03-19-30-01 ca-dump-backups-oooo 2015-06-03-19-30-01 ca-data-rsync-ppppp 2015-06-03-19-30-01 . |
amrecover> add check-mounts Added file /check-mounts |
amrecover> lcd /tmp |
amrecover> setdevice Using default tape. Tape server unspecified, assumed to be localhost. |
amrecover> list
TAPE MyTeam-Daily1-003:3 LEVEL 1 DATE 2015-06-03-19-30-01
/check-mounts
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amrecover> extract Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk:/vtapes2/MyTeam-Daily1 on host localhost. The following tapes are needed: MyTeam-Daily1-003 Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk:/vtapes2/MyTeam-Daily1 on host localhost. Load tape MyTeam-Daily1-003 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Y ./check-mounts |
amrecover> exit 200 Good bye. |
[root@backup-server]# cd /tmp [root@backup-server]# ls -la total 132 drwxrwxrwt. 4 root root 4096 Jun 4 15:23 . dr-xr-xr-x. 40 root root 4096 May 26 14:47 .. drwx------ 2 amandabackup disk 114688 Jun 4 05:38 amanda -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1048 Jun 2 07:32 check-mounts |