NAME

amstatus - display the state of an Amanda run

SYNOPSIS

amstatus [--file amdumpfile] [--summary] [--dumping] [--waitdumping] [--waittaper] [--dumpingtape] [--writingtape] [--finished] [--failed] [--estimate] [--gestimate] [--stats] [--locale-independent-date-format] [--config] config

DESCRIPTION

Amstatus gives the current state of the Amanda run specified by the config configuration. If there is no active Amanda running, it summarizes the result of the last run. It may also be used to summarize the results of a previous run.

See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.

OPTIONS

All options may be abbreviated to the shortest non-ambiguous sub-string. If no options are given, everything is displayed.

[--config] config

Specify the Amanda configuration you want to display the state for.

--file amdumpfile

Specify an alternate file instead of the amdump or amflush file.

--summary

Display a summary of the state of the run.

--dumping

Display all partitions that are dumping.

--waitdumping|wdumping

Display all partitions that are waiting to be dumped.

--waittaper|wtaper

Display all partitions dumped that are waiting to be written to tape.

--dumpingtape|dtape

Display all partitions that are dumping directly to tape.

--writingtape|wtape

Display all partitions that are writing to tape.

--finished

Display all partitions that are dumped and written to tape.

--failed|error

Display all partitions that failed.

--estimate

Display all partitions whose estimate is finished. Works only during the estimate phase.

--gestimate|gettingestimate

Display all partitions whose estimate is not finished. Works only during the estimate phase.

--stats|statistics

Display statistics about active-time of taper and dumpers.

--locale-independent-date-format

Output the date in a locale independent format. The format is the same executing: date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z'

EXIT CODE

The exit code of amstatus is the ORed value of:

 0  = success
 1  = error
 4  = a dle failed
 8  = Don't know the status of a dle (RESULT_MISSING in the report)
 16 = tape error or no more tape

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