amanda-client.conf — Client configuration file for Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
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.
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:
Some number of bytes.
Some number of bytes per second.
Some number of kilobytes (bytes*1024).
Some number of kilobytes per second (bytes*1024).
Some number of megabytes (bytes*1024*1024).
Some number of megabytes per second (bytes*1024*1024).
Some number of gigabytes (bytes*1024*1024*1024).
Some number of tapes.
Some number of days.
Some number of weeks (days*7).
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.
Default: Set by configure. The conf use by amrecover.
Default: Set by configure. The amindexd server amrecover will connect to.
Default: Set by configure. The amidxtaped server amrecover will connect to.
Default: Set by configure. The tapedev amrecover will use.
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.
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 deafult ssh key will be used.
Default from configure --with-gnutar-listdir=DIR. The directory where gnutar keep its state file.
Default: /etc/amandates. The file where amanda keep the last date of each dumplevel.
Default: 3. How many times the server will try a connection.
Default: 5. How many times amandad will resend a REP packet if it doesn't get the ACK packet.
Default: 0. Debug level of the amandad process
Default: 0. Debug level of the amidxtaped process
Default: 0. Debug level of the amindexd process
Default: 0. Debug level of the amrecover process
Default: 0. Debug level of the auth module
Default: 0. Debug level of the event module
Default: 0. Debug level of the holdingdisk module
Default: 0. Debug level of the protocol module
Default: 0. Debug level of the selfcheck process
Default: 0. Debug level of the sendsize process
Default: 0. Debug level of the sendbackup process
Default: --with-udpportrange or 512,1023. Reserved udp port that will be used (amrecover with bsd or bsdudp)
Default: --with-low-tcpportrange or 512,1023. Reserved tcp port that will be used (amrecover with bsdtcp)
Default: --with-tcpportrange or 1025,65536. Unreserved tcp port that will be used (bsd, bsdudp)
James da Silva, <[email protected]>: Original text
Stefan G. Weichinger, <[email protected]>, maintainer of the
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