AMOVERVIEW(8)

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✨ AMOVERVIEW(8) ✨

okay bestie, buckle up 💖 this is amoverview from section 8 of the manual (System Administration Commands, iykyk) — she shows you all the file systems Amanda has been chomping on over time. no cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

amoverview — display file systems processed by Amanda over time. literally that's her whole job 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

amoverview [--hostwidth width] [--diskwidth width] [--skipmissed]
           [--last] [--num0] [--togo0] [--verbose] [--config ] config

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So amoverview puts up a whole chart for you — hosts and file systems that Amanda processed, plus which backup level got performed each and every day. it's giving receipts 📊

If you want the full Amanda lore, go read the amanda(8) man page, bestie. that's where the details live.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --config config — use configuration config. that's the one, periodt.
  • --hostwidth width — sets the host field column width to width characters instead of the default 8.
  • --diskwidth width — sets the disk field column width to width characters instead of the default 20.
  • --skipmissed — compacts the output by only printing stats for the days Amanda actually ran. no ghost days, no empty air 🫶
  • --last — outputs the last status of each disk at the start. obsessed with this one if you've got long tapecycles and/or sparse reports ✨
  • --num0 — outputs the number of level 0 dumps for each disk.
  • --togo0 — outputs the number of runs until the last level 0 dump gets overwritten. the countdown vibes ⏳
  • --verbose — amoverview can take a long while on large systems, ngl. this option reports intermediate steps while it's working so you're not just staring at a blank terminal wondering if it ghosted you.

👑 RESULTS 👑

amoverview is basically a summary of the output of amadmin <config> find. whenever the last column of amadmin find contains anything other than "OK", amoverview translates that into an "E" for that day.

A number means the level of backup and it succeeded. An "E" means an error for that day. And you get an "E" for all the errors — failed to connect, datatimeout, computer crashed, etc. — but also for failing to write to tape. yeah. all of them. 😭

You can also have an "E" followed by a number, which happens if a filesystem ran into end-of-tape once (that gives you an "E"), and then later that same day you flush it to a second tape (that gives you a number: the level, indicating success). And if the flush failed too? you get a double "EE" for that day. 💀

You can also get a double code if you've got two tapes in the changer and Amanda failed to write to tape the first time because it hit end of tape (resulting in "E0" for a full, "E1" for an incremental, etc.) or twice with error ("EE"), and maybe a successful flush afterwards giving maybe "EE0". (Only the latest 2 characters are printed, just so you know.)

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

This one shows the /home file system on host2 was backed up at level 3 on the 8th, 9th and 10th of December, had a full backup on the 11th, a level 1 on the 12th and a level 2 on the 13th. iconic behavior honestly 🎀

# amoverview
                         date 12 12 12 12 12 12
host     disk                 08 09 10 11 12 13

host1    /                     0  1  1  1  1  1
host1    /var                  0  1  1  1  1  1
host2    /                     1  1  1  1  1  0
host2    /home                 3  3  3  0  1  2
host2    /opt                  1  1  1  1  1  1
host2    /var                  1  1  0  1  1  1

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

amanda(8), amadmin(8)

The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Stefan G. Weichinger <sgw@amanda.org> — king behavior, we thank him for his service 🙏

okay that's the whole page, bestie 💅 Amanda 3.5.4, dated 08/26/2026 — go forth and overview your file systems, you absolute main character 🦋✨
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