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8. To view the report, press Alt+V.
The report appears on your screen. If the report is too wide for your
screen, Amanda eliminates the columns that do not fit. These columns
are in the report but not on the screen.
9. Use Page Up, Page Down, Up Arrow, and Down Arrow to view addi-
tional rows of the report.
Printing Reports
Printed reports can have a variety of uses. You can post the results, make
copies for a meeting, or file them for later reference. If you are running
Amanda as a standalone system, you use the Report screen to print reports
from a printer attached to Amanda.
To print the report:
• From the Reports screen, press Alt+P for Print.
N
OTE
: To print reports, the configuration option lpt_port must be
set correctly (by default, it is set to 1). The printer must also
be online and have paper.
Saving Reports as Files
Saving a report as a text file allows you to use that file in a word processor,
spread sheet, database, or file comparison application.
To save the report as a file:
1. From the Reports screen, press Alt+F.
The Copy Report To dialog box appears.
2. Type the name of a file in which to store the report template.
Report names can be up to 8 letters long and consist of the letters A to Z
and the digits 0 to 9. Report names are
not case sensitive. “LISTING”,
“Listing”, and “listing” all refer to the same file.