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* [[References]]
* [[References]]
* [[Success stories]]
* [[Success stories]]
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[http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-survey.html '''Amanda user survey''']. Details about Amanda usage provided by you
will help Amanda developers make appropriate decisions for future Amanda releases and will benefit the
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== Amanda releases ==
== Amanda releases ==

Revision as of 00:19, 31 October 2006

Amanda is the world's most popular Open Source Backup and Archiving software. Amanda allows System Administrators to set up a single backup server to back up multiple hosts to a tape- or disk-based storage system. Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations and servers running various versions of Linux, Unix or Microsoft Windows operating systems.



Amanda Documentation

Please spare few minutes of your time and to fill out the 
Amanda user survey. Details about Amanda usage provided by you 
will help Amanda developers make appropriate decisions for future Amanda releases and will benefit the 
Amanda community. Your responses will be published in aggregate form on the Amanda Wiki, 
Amanda forums the amanda-users and amanda-hackers mailing lists.

Amanda releases

  • 2.5.0 features - 2.5.0p2 (bug fix release) was released on May 8, 2006
  • 2.5.1 features - 2.5.1p1 (bug fix release) was released on Sept 27, 2006

Quick Links

Useful Amanda tools

  • tapecat - Information regarding the amanda tape and tape contents are displayed. The information includes the tape label, the diskdevice and the diskname as specified in the disklist file.
  • amandatape - A perl script to print labels for Amanda backup tapes. Download the file and save it as amandatape
  • testgtar - A perl script to test GNU tar exclude patterns. It takes exclude file and DLE as the parameters.
  • Gene's Amanda helper scripts - This tar ball contains amdump and amflush helper script (bak-indices-configs) that backs up configuration and indexes generated by the backup run to the end of the current tape/vtape. The availability of configuration and indices would permit bare metal recovery. Please read README file in the tar ball before using the tools. Modify the tool for the Amanda configuration.

Other Links