AMANDA-APPLICATIONS(7)

🎀 AMANDA-APPLICATIONS 🎀 (that's section 7 of the miscellany, bestie)

okay so this whole page is literally the group chat for Amanda's application-api — welcome, pull up a chair, we're learning how to use applications with Amanda 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

It's the page that describes how to use an application with Amanda. That's the whole vibe. Short, sweet, slay.

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🌸 APPLICATIONS 🌸

This section is the roster — every application that ships with Amanda, listed out. Each one has its own man page with the actual instructions on how to use it, so go read those before you start clicking buttons. And if you want the full How-To tea, the Amanda wiki is right here at http://wiki.zmanda.com. 🫶

• amgtar(8) — uses GNU Tar to back up and restore your data.
• ampgsql(8) — uses PostgreSQL's continuous WAL archiving. iconic behavior.
• amraw(8) — uses open and read to read the data. that's it, that's the whole plugin, no cap.
• amsamba(8) — uses smbclient to back up and restore data.
• amstar(8) — uses star to back up and restore data.
• amsuntar(8) — uses the native tar on Solaris to back up and restore data.
• amzfs-sendrecv(8) — uses zfs to create a snapshot and then uses 'zfs send' to generate the backup. main character energy fr.
• amzfs-snapshot(8) — uses zfs to create a snapshot, and it's meant to be used together with other applications (e.g. amgtar). bestie collab 💖

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💜 DEFINING APPLICATIONS 💜

So how do you actually define an application? You do it in amanda.conf(5), like this:

define application-tool $appconfigname {
   plugin "$pluginname"
   property "$PROPERTY_NAME" "$PROPERTY_VALUE"
   ...
}

and then you reference it inside a dumptype, like this:

define dumptype $dumptypename {
   ...
   program "APPLICATION"
   application "$appconfigname"
}

🦋 a lil note on properties 🦋

Application properties are, just like Amanda configuration parameters, insensitive to case, and - (dash) and _ (underscore) may be used interchangeably. so go off, spell it however, it's not that deep 🙈

Heads up bestie: the properties that actually apply to each plugin are listed in that plugin's own documentation — check there, don't guess. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• amanda(8)
• amanda.conf(5)
• The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com> — Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
• Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com> — Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

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