How Tos
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Server
- How To:Write to Multiple Volumes in Parallel
- How To:Copy Data from Volume to Volume
- How To:Split Dumps Across Tapes
- How To:Split DLEs With Exclude Lists
- How To:Set up data encryption
- How To:Fill tapes to 100%
- How To:Delay writing to tape for better tape utilization
- How To:Diagnose a Failing Tape Drive
- How To:Verify backups
- How To:Use pigz to speed up compression
- Migration
Data Storage
(see amanda-devices(7) and amanda-changers(7) for authoritative information on Amanda's devices and changers, respectively)
- How To:Write dump to multiple storages
- Virtual Tapes
- S3
- RAIT
Communications
(see amanda-auth(7) for authoritative information about Amanda's authentication protocols)
- How To:Configure rsh authentication
- How To:Configure bsdtcp authentication
- How To:Set up transport encryption with SSH
- How To:Set up Kerberos authentication
- How To:Configure Backward-compatible Authentication Methods
- How To:Run Amanda Over IPv6
- How To:Set Up iptables for Amanda
- How To:Set Up Amanda Communication Via SSH Tunnels
- How To:Run Amanda Across a NAT Boundary
- How To:Diagnose "host down" errors
Client
- How To:Use Amanda Applications on a Client
- How To:Backup Clients Via Wireless
- How To:Use Wake-On-LAN to Awaken Clients
- How To:Backup Partitions Mounted via NFS
- How To:Backup AFS Volumes
- How To:Run Multiple amandad processes on a Client
- How To:Ignore spurious messages from GNU Tar
- How To:Use Amanda to Back Up PostgreSQL
- How To:Backup Databases Through Dumps (the old way)
Recovery
- How To:Recover Data
- How To:Limit the Hosts That Can Recover a DLE
- How To:Restore from Virtual Tapes
- How To:Restore from a RAIT Device
- How To:Recover Lost Amanda Configuration
- How To:Do a Bare Metal Restore
System-Specific Tasks
Cygwin
MacOS X
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