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[[Image:amanda2.gif|left|150px]] 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. | |||
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; [[Image:Survey_results.gif]] : In October of ’06 we asked Amanda community to answer a few questions about their usage of Amanda. Please review here the [[Results of Amanda Users Survey 2006]]. | |||
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== Amanda Documentation == | |||
* [[User documentation]] | |||
* [[Man pages]] | |||
* [[Developer documentation]] | |||
* [[Wishlist/Features planned]] | |||
* [[Amanda publications]] | |||
* [[Amanda user surveys and success stories]] | |||
== Amanda releases == | |||
* [[2.5.0 features]] - 2.5.0p2 (bug fix release) was released on May 8, 2006 | |||
* [[2.5.1 features]] - 2.5.1p3 (bug fix release) was released on Feb 8, 2007 | |||
== Quick Links == | |||
* Amanda [[Quick start]] procedure | |||
* Amanda [[Tapetype definitions]] | |||
== Useful Amanda tools == | |||
* [http://www.inventivetechnology.at/tapecat 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. | |||
* [[Media:amandatape.txt |amandatape]] - A perl script to print labels for Amanda backup tapes. Download the file and save it as '''amandatape''' | |||
* [http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/testgtar testgtar] - A perl script to test GNU tar exclude patterns. It takes [[Exclude_and_include_lists#Utilize_an_Exclude_List|exclude file]] and DLE as the parameters. | |||
* [[Media:GenesAmandaHelper-0.5.tar.gz|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 == | |||
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda/ Amanda SourceForge page] | |||
* [http://forums.zmanda.com/ Amanda Forums] | |||
* [http://www.amanda.org Amanda project page] | |||
* [[About this Wiki]] | |||
* [[Licenses, Copyrights and Trademarks]] | |||
* [[Amanda Copyright]] | |||
* [[Administrative issues about this Wiki]] | |||
Revision as of 22:59, 28 February 2007
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.
- In October of ’06 we asked Amanda community to answer a few questions about their usage of Amanda. Please review here the Results of Amanda Users Survey 2006.
Amanda Documentation
- User documentation
- Man pages
- Developer documentation
- Wishlist/Features planned
- Amanda publications
- Amanda user surveys and success stories
Amanda releases
- 2.5.0 features - 2.5.0p2 (bug fix release) was released on May 8, 2006
- 2.5.1 features - 2.5.1p3 (bug fix release) was released on Feb 8, 2007
Quick Links
- Amanda Quick start procedure
- Amanda Tapetype definitions
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.