Developer documentation

Introduction How To Help - How can you get involved? Development Tasks - Stuff that needs doing. Coding Guidelines - Things every developer should know Software architecture - How Amanda fits together Perl Interface - Amanda's being rewritten in Perl! Testing - How we keep Amanda functioning correctly. Minimum Versions - The tools you'll need to develop. APIs, Protocols, Formats Transfer Architecture (XFA) Device API Application API (under development) Pre and Post Scripts Server/Client communication Security API TCP/UDP ports Firewalls & NAT Driver-Taper protocol Reading amanda configuration REQ packet format update amindexd protocol Changer API Log Files Planner Notes

Developer Resources Community amanda-hackers mailing list sourceforge project page Platform Experts Tools Lint Valgrind Presentations Perl in the Amanda Core (2008-01-18, Dustin J. Mitchell) Amanda Development (UM-LUG) (2008-03-26, Dustin J. Mitchell)

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