AMARCHIVER(8)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, meet amarchiver — manual AMARCHIVER(8), System Administration Commands crew — the icon whose whole job is to create, extract, or list an amanda archive. That's it, that's the main character energy. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

amarchiver --version|--create|--extract|--list [--verbose] [--file file]
           [filename]...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

amarchiver manipulates an amanda archive file. Periodt. 💅

On creation, amarchiver doesn't recurse into directories. If a filename specifies a directory, it will be ignored. If it specifies a character device, amarchiver reads the device and archives the data. If a filename specifies a named pipe, amarchiver reads the named pipe and archives the data. no cap.

Note that this tool is more limited than the Amanda archive library, and may not be appropriate for some archive files -- particularly those which use non-strings in their filenames. So maybe don't make it your whole personality for every archive, mwah. 😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --version — print the amarchiver version. identity check, slay. ✨
• --create — Create an amanda archive. Only the supplied filenames are included. With one --verbose, lists the filenames. With two, lists the filenames and sizes. cute and thorough. 🎀
• --list — List the filenames in an amanda archive. No additional filenames are allowed on the command line. rules are rules, bestie. 🫶
• --extract — Extract an amanda archive. If filenames are supplied, only those files are extracted. Files are created in the current directory, suffixed with a dot (.) and the attribute ID. the way that dot-plus-attribute-ID combo is giving specificity. ✨
• --verbose — Give more information. turn the info dial up, iykyk. 🔥
• --file file — Create, list or extract from the given file instead of stdin/stdout. no cap, it said file twice for a reason. 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• amanda(8), amanda-archive-format(5)
• The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/

👑 AUTHORS 👑

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

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💖 Amanda 3.5.4 · 07/23/2025 — that's the source/version + date, bestie; now go archive something iconic 💖