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.
The Summary Report page consists of two panels:
All the reports use the same calandar navigation to access reports to display.
The Summary Report page opens with the calendar set to the current month.
You can either enter the date (mm/dd/yy) and click Go, or click on any icon in the calendar. When you click Go (or click on a different date), the report shows any summary data (if any is available) for that date.
The calendar control offers a graphical way to choose a report date. Dates that include backup data have a status icon; click the icon to display the given report (you cannot select dates with no backups to report on). When you click a report icon, it changes color to show it has been visited.
The Report Summary panel on the right has the following navigational aids:
The date browse buttons allow to conveniently move back and forth one day (using < or >) or one week (using << or >>) at a time.
Timestamp links below the browse buttons show the time at which the backup run was initiated. Clicking on a Timestamp link go to the Restore What page with the date and time automatically filled in.
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.