General Options This window defines the general configurations. 11.. OOtthheerr 11..11.. CCoonnffiigg.. ddeessccrriippttiioonn A descriptive name for the configuration. This string is used for mail reports. Each Amanda configuration should have a different value. 11..22.. MMaaiill rreeppoorrttss ttoo A comma separated list of recipients for mail reports. 11..33.. DDuummpp ccyyccllee The number of days in the backup cycle. Each disk will get a full backup no less often than this many days. Suffixes: day, days, week, weeks 11..44.. RRuunnss ppeerr ccyyccllee The number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days. A value of 0 means the same value as dumpcycle. A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the tapelist file, which is the number of tape used in the last dumpcycle days / runtapes. 11..55.. TTaappee ccyyccllee The number of tapes in your active tape cycle. This must be at least one larger than the number of Amanda runs done during a dump cycle (see the dumpcycle parameter) times the number of tapes used per run (see the runtapes parameter). For instance, if you have dumpcycle set to 14 days, do one Amanda run per day and have runtapes set to one, tapecycle must be at least 15 (14 days * one run/day * one tape/run + one tape). In practice you should have five or more extra tapes to allow for schedule adjustments or disaster recovery. 11..66.. DDuummpp uusseerr The login name Amanda uses to run the backups. The backup client hosts must allow access from the tape server host as this user via .rhosts or .amandahosts, depending on how the Amanda software was built. 11..77.. RRuunn ttaappeess The maximum number of tapes used in a single run. If you do not have a tape changer, this option is not used and should be left blank. Suffixes: tape, tapes 11..88.. EEssttiimmaattiioonn ttiimmeeoouutt Amount of time per disk on a given client that planner will wait to get the dump size estimates. For instance, with the default of 300 seconds and four disks on client A, planner will wait up to 20 minutes for that machine. A negative value will be interpreted as a total amount of time, instead of a per- disk value. 11..99.. NNeett uussaaggee:: The maximum network bandwidth allocated to Amanda, in Kbytes per second. See also the interface section. 11..1100.. MMaaxx.. ppaarraalllleell bbaacckkuuppss The maximum number of backups that Amanda will attempt to run in parallel. Amanda will stay within the constraints of network bandwidth and holding disk space available, so it doesn't hurt to set this number a bit high. Some contention can occur with larger numbers of backups, but this effect is relatively small on most systems. 11..1111.. MMaaxx.. ppaarraalllleell bbaacckkuuppss ppeerr hhoosstt The maximum number of backups from a single host that Amanda will attempt to run in parallel. See also the dumptype section and in parallel option. 11..1122.. BBuummpp ssiizzee The minimum savings required to trigger an automatic bump from one incremental level to the next. If Amanda determines that the next higher backup level will be this much smaller than the current level, it will do the next level. See also the Bump multiplier setting. 11..1133.. BBuummpp mmuullttiipplliieerr The bump multiplier. Amanda multiplies bumpsize by this factor for each level. This prevents active filesystems from bumping too much by making it harder to bump to the next level. For example, with the default bumpsize and bumpmult set to 2.0, the bump threshold will be 10 Mbytes for level one, 20 Mbytes for level two, 40 Mbytes for level three, and so on. 11..1144.. BBuummpp ddaayyss To insure redundancy in the dumps, Amanda will keep filesystems at the same incremental level for at least bumpdays days, even if the bump threshold criteria are met. 11..1155.. RReesseerrvveedd HHDD ssppaaccee The amount of holding-disk space that should not be used for full backups if no tape is available. By default, when there is no tape to write to, degraded mode (incremental) backups will be performed to the holding disk. If you wish to also allow full backups in this case, you may reduce the amount of holding disk space reserved for incrementals. 22.. TTaappee ddeevviiccee 22..11.. TTaappee llaabbeellss The tape label constraint regular expression. All tape labels generated and used by this configuration must match the regular expression. If multiple configurations are run from the same tape server host, it is helpful to constrain their labels to different strings (for example, "DAILY[0-9]*" vs. "ARCHIVE[0-9]*") to avoid overwriting each other's tapes. 22..22.. TTaappee ttyyppee The type of tape drive associated with Tape device or Tape changer device. This refers to one of the defined tape types section, which specify various tape parameters, like the length, filemark size, and speed of the tape media and device. 22..33.. TTaappee ddeevviiccee The path name of the tape device (/dev/something). If you have configured a tape changer (see the Tape changer name option), this option is not used and should be left blank. 22..44.. RRaaww ttaappee ddeevviiccee The path name of the raw tape device (/dev/something). It is only used if Amanda is compiled for Linux machines with floppy tapes. It is needed for QIC volume table operations. 22..55.. TTaappee cchhaannggeerr nnaammee The name of the tape changer. If you do not have a tape changer, this option is not used and should be left blank. 22..66.. TTaappee cchhaannggeerr ddeevviiccee A tape change configuration parameter (/dev/something). Usage depends on the particular changer defined with the Tape changer name option. 22..77.. TTaappee cchhaannggeerr ssttaattuuss ffiillee A tape change configuration parameter. Usage depends on the particular changer defined with the tpchanger option. 33.. PPaatthhss//FFiilleess 33..11.. DDiisskklliisstt ffiillee The file name for the disklist file. Leaving it blank means the default filename will be used. 33..22.. IInnffoo ffiillee The file or directory name for the historical information database. 33..33.. DDiirreeccttoorryy ffoorr llooggss The directory for the amdump and log files. 33..44.. DDiirreeccttoorryy ffoorr iinnddeexx ffiillee The directory where index files are stored. Index files are only generated for filesystems whose dumptype has the index option enabled. 33..55.. AAccttiivvee ttaappee lliisstt ffiillee The file name for the active tapelist file. If left blank the default name will be used.