AMSTAR(8)

NAME
amstar - Amanda Application to interface with star

DESCRIPTION

Amstar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses star to backup and restore data.

PROPERTIES

This section lists the properties that control amstar's functionality. See amanda-applications(7) for information on application properties and how they are configured.

ONE-FILE-SYSTEM
    If "YES" (the default), do not allow star to cross filesystem boundaries. If "NO", star will cross filesystem boundaries. This corresponds to the -xdev option of star.

SPARSE
    If "YES" (the default), star will store sparse files efficiently. If "NO", then the -sparse option is not given to star, and it will not try to detect sparse files.

STAR-DLE-TARDUMP
    If "YES", amstar will use a different tardump file for each DLE. The default is "NO". This property is needed with older versions of star doing many dumps in parallel, because of a race condition in updating the tardump file.

STAR-PATH
    The path to the star binary. The default is set when Amanda is built.

STAR-TARDUMP
    The directory where star stores the database it uses to generate incremental dumps. The default is set when Amanda is built.

SEE ALSO

amanda.conf(5), amanda-applications(7)

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)