AMREINDEX(8)

✨ AMREINDEX ✨

ok so bestie, this is amreindex from section 8 of the manual — that's the System Administration Commands girlies — and she's about to re-index tapes or specific dump. yes. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

amreindex — re-index tapes or specific dump 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

amreindex [--timestamp|-t timestamp] [--verbose] [-o configoption...]
          config

amreindex [--verbose] [--exact-match] [-o configoption...] config
          [hostname [ disk [ date [ hostname [...] ] ] ]]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

ok so here's the tea: Amreindex reindexes Amanda dump images by reading them from the storage volume(s) and handing them off to the application so it can do the reindexing. that's the whole personality. ✨

she's flexible like that — Amreindex works in two different ways, and she can either work on all dumps of a single run or on a list of specified dumps. choose your own adventure, bestie. 🫶

she reindexes the dumps you spell out on the command line, or she reindexes every dump from the run you picked with the timestamp (and if you don't give a timestamp at all, she just goes with the latest run). no cap. 👑

if a changer is available, it gets used to load the required tapes, easy peasy. if not? the application literally just asks you for the tapes interactively. awkward but she makes it work. 🙈

💀 real talk though: not all applications support reindexing. so don't come for her if yours doesn't.

for the info on the -o option, go read the "CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE" section in amanda(8). iykyk. 💜

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🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

here's the moment you've been waiting for, the demonstration:

# reindex the most recent dump
amreindex MYCONFIG

# reindex all dumps of a specific run
amreindex MYCONFIG --timestamp 20121108013001

# reindex a specific dump
amreindex MYCONFIG localhost /boot 20131108013001

like. she ate. 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• amanda(8), amreindex(8) — go read these too, bestie, they're iconic

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

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ian Turner <ian@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) 🎀

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ok and for the cute lil sign-off: this whole thing is Amanda 3.5.4, dated 08/26/2026, and it's the AMREINDEX(8) page, bestie. she's a whole era. periodt. 💖✨🌟