am-backup-report Files

ambackupreport

Welcome to ambackupreport (ABR).

Overview

This is a small-footprint reporting system for tracking amanda backup jobs.

This first release is intended to be rewritten at some future date but for now I am releasing early to put it into use.

Installation

Refer to the file INSTALL for instructions.

Design Concepts

The structure of ambackupreport is RESELLER --> MASTER_SVR --> CONFIG.

Backup jobs are grouped together under the title of "reseller". This name implies that backup reporting can be devolved to someone other than the sysadmin. Typically it would be someone with responsibility for backups in multiple separate departments within a large organisation. It could also imply the reselling of backup services e.g. as a cloud service provider.

Information about the status of backup jobs is gathered into a database that is tied to one "reseller". 

This information is queried to build two reports - a detailed report and an overview report. The overview report is intended to show whether or not the backup job completed correctly. The detailed report provides a drill-down facility to view the amanda logs for individual backup jobs.

MASTER_SVR refers to the server running amanda as host. You may have several of these servers in a large backups environment.

CONFIG refers to the amanda configuration name. 

RESELLER refers to the grouping of amanda backup jobs. You may have multiple amanda configs bundled together for convenience. 

Known bugs

There are a small number of known bugs, but they do not affect the overall functionality of the system.

Reporting faults

Please report problems using the Sourceforge email system.