amstatus (8) - Linux Manuals

amstatus: display the state of an Amanda run

Command to display amstatus manual in Linux: $ man 8 amstatus

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

AUTHOR

Stefan G. Weichinger <sgw [at] amanda.org>