Table of contents
- 1. Summary Reports
- 1.1. Summary Report Page Overview
- 1.2. Summary Report Page Procedure
- 1.3. Date and Legend Panel
- 1.3.1. Date Calender Control Sub panel
- 1.3.2. Legend Sub panel
- 1.4. Summary Panel
- 1.4.1. Common Navigational Aids
- 1.4.1.1. A Calender Turner
- 1.4.1.2. Timestamp Bar
- 1.4.1.3. Scroll Bars
- 1.4.1. Common Navigational Aids
- 1.5. Contents of Summary Reports
- 1.6. Displaying Long Field Names in Reports
Summary Reports
The sub tabs listed under the Report tab let you view the progress of backup runs from many perspectives. It also provides a way to browse backups and select them for restore. By clicking on a backup date, you can jump immediately to the Restore What page, where the selected date will be automatically entered. Summary provides a convenient overview of the backup run from a given date and backup set.
Note: The Report pages will not display data from Backups done prior to installing ZMC.
Summary Report Page Overview
- The main functionality of the Summary Report page is to allow users to view a summary report of a past backup run of a backup set.
Summary Report Page Procedure
- The Summary Report page is visually divided into two panels.
- The Left hand panel (No above) contains a Calender control sub panel(No 2 above) and a Legend sub panel (No 3 above).
- The Right hand panel (No 4 above) mainly contains the text of summary reports.
- It also has a Calender Turner aid at the top.
- This aid is common to all the four pages of Report Tab.
Date and Legend Panel
- By default the Summary Report page opens with the current month calender shown in the Left hand Date and Legend panel.
Date Calender Control Sub panel
- The top portion consists of a Backup Date input box along with a Go button.
- The input box accepts dates in both mm/dd/yyyy and mm/dd/yy formats.
- After the date has been entered in the input box,users can press the Enter button on their keyboard or click the Go button on the screen to reach to that date in the Calender Control.
- The Summary Data report, if any, for that date will be displayed in the Right hand panel.
- The bottom portion consists of the Calendar Control.
- The Calendar control functions in the usual manner. Its enhancements are explained here.
- Cells of individual dates display appropriate Legend.
- The Date Rectangle's color changes to a yellow-orange color to reflect that the hyper link has been visited. Note that if you use the arrow buttons to navigate to a date, its report data will not be displayed unless you actually click on the date (or have previously visited that date by clicking on it).
Legend Sub panel
- The Legends differentiates between six outcomes of a Backup run.
- These are
- Normal Backup Single or Multiple
- Backup with Warning(s) Single or Multiple Backups on the same day.
- Backup with Error(s) Single or Multiple Backups on the same day.
- Normally, there will be only one Backup run on each day for a backup set.
- However, it is possible to force multiple backups runs on one single day by doing so from the Backup Activate page where an Immediate Backup button is available.
- In all cases, there will be only one Legend in the Calender Control for that date.
- However, the Summary will contain details of all the Backups that were run that day for that backup set.
Summary Panel
Common Navigational Aids
- The Right hand Report Summary panel has the following navigational aids i.e.
A Calender Turner
- This is labeled (No. below) and pressing either of the two inner single arrows allows the users to change reports one day at a time.
- When either of the outer two arrows signs are pressed, the Calender changes by a week (seven days) at a time.
Timestamp Bar
- The Timestamp bar (No. 2 below) shows the time at which the backup run was initiated.
- Clicking on the Timestamp hyper link will take users to the data within the Summary Report that deals with that time stamp.
Scroll Bars
- When required, horizontal and vertical scroll bars appear in the Report Summary window automatically.
Contents of Summary Reports
- The Summary Report contains summary under the following heads:
- Dump Summary
- Statistics
- Usage by Tape including Failure Summary and Details as well as Strange Summary and Details.
- Notes: The Notes section contains important information that require backup administrator attention. This information is available as part of the email notification.
The following message in the NOTES section indicates the required tapes are not available in tape drive or tape changer and future backups will be done to the holding disk.
NOTES: driver: Out of tapes; going into degraded mode.
The following message in the NOTES section indicates that the last level 1 dump of the given Disk List Entry (DLE) has been overwritten on the given tape, so Amanda will reset the DLE to level 1. This message applies to the "incremental only" backup strategy:
NOTES: Last level 1 dump of DLE_Name on tape tape_number overwritten on this run, resetting to level 1
The following message in the FAILURE SUMMARY section implies holding disk space is not available and backup run failed for the client directory.
FAILURE SUMMARY: solaris-client /home lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
Displaying Long Field Names in Reports
The widths for various columns in reports are defined in the amanda.conf file. If the data for a field exceeds the maximum width defined in amanda.conf, the display is truncated. You can change the maximum width. For example, to display longer hostnames, edit the amanda.conf file to define a wider column width for hostnames. If you edit amanda.conf to include the following entry:
columnspec "HostName=0:15"
See the description of the columnspec parameter in the amanda.conf man page for further information.
the Summary Report page will display hostnames of up to 15 characters.