NAME
disklist - List of partitions to back up for AmandaDESCRIPTION
The disklist file determines which disks will be backed up by Amanda. The file contains includefile directive or disklist entry ( DLE). includefile stringDefault: no default. The name of a
disklist file to include within the current file. Useful for sharing disklist
among several configurations. Relative pathnames are relative to the
configuration directory.
A DLE usually contains one line per disk:
hostname diskname [diskdevice] dumptype [spindle [interface] ]All pairs [ hostname diskname ] must be unique. Lines starting with # are ignored, as are blank lines. The fields have the following meanings: hostname
The name of the host to be backed up. If
diskdevice refers to a PC share, this is the host Amanda will run the
Samba smbclient program on to back up the share.
diskname
The name of the disk (a label). In most case,
you set your diskname to the diskdevice and you don't set the
diskdevice. If you want multiple entries with the same
diskdevice, you must set a different diskname for each entry.
It's the diskname that you use on the commandline for any Amanda
command. Look at the example/disklist file for example.
diskdevice
Default: same as diskname. The name of the
disk device to be backed up. It may be a full device name, a device name
without the /dev/ prefix, e.g. sd0a, or a mount point such as /usr.
It may also refer to a PC share by starting the name with two (forward) slashes,
e.g. //some-pc/home. In this case, the program option in the associated
dumptype must be entered as GNUTAR. It is the combination of the
double slash disk name and program GNUTAR in the dumptype that
triggers the use of Samba.
dumptype
Refers to a dumptype defined in the
amanda.conf file. Dumptypes specify backup related parameters,
such as whether to compress the backups, whether to record backup results in
/var/lib/dumpdates, the disk's relative priority, etc.
spindle
Default: -1. A number used to balance
backup load on a host. Amanda will not run multiple backups at the same time
on the same spindle, unless the spindle number is -1, which means there is no
spindle restriction.
interface
Default: local. The name of a network
interface definition in the amanda.conf file, used to balance network
load.
Instead of naming a dumptype, it is possible to define one in-line,
enclosing dumptype options within curly braces, one per line, just like
a dumptype definition in amanda.conf. Since pre-existing
dumptypes are valid option names, this syntax may be used to customize
dumptypes for particular disks.
A line break must follow the left curly bracket.
For instance, if a dumptype named normal is used for most disks,
but use of the holding disk needs to be disabled for the file system that
holds it, this would work instead of defining a new dumptype:
hostname diskname [ diskdevice ] {
normal
holdingdisk never
} [ spindle [ interface ] ]
The { must appear at the end of a line, and the } on its own line possibly
followed by the spindle and interface.
SEE ALSO
amanda(8), amanda.conf(5) The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/AUTHORS
James da Silva <[email protected]> Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> Dustin J. Mitchell <[email protected]>Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
| 12/01/2017 | Amanda 3.5.1 |