User documentation

Tutorial

The tutorial will take you on a complete tour of Amanda's capabilities.

• What is AMANDA?
• Quick start
• Installation
  • OS Specific Notes
• Configuration
• Administration

Reference

• Troubleshooting: solutions to common problems
• FAQ: frequently asked questions
• How Tos: instructions for various common tasks
• Man pages: the most up-to-date manual pages
• Deprecated Pages: old documentation
• Tapetype definitions: your tape drive is probably here!

Devices

• Tape Device
• VFS Device
• S3 Device
• RAIT Device

Other Articles

• Version compatibility: compatibility between Amanda versions
• Script API

Concepts

• Index files
• curinfo database
• Log files
• Encryption
• Changers
• Exclude and include lists

Community Resources

Platform-Specific Support

The Amanda community maintains a group of Platform Experts who are familiar with using Amanda on specific platforms. Experts monitor the amanda-users mailing list, and will help you with questions relating to their area of expertise.

• Platform Experts

Websites

• official Amanda website
• amanda-users mailing list
  • mailing-list archive
• sourceforge project page