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{{Hilight Sidebar|[[Image:Survey_results.gif|left]] In October of ’06 we asked the Amanda community to answer a few questions about their usage of Amanda. Please review here the [[Results of Amanda Users Survey 2006]]}} | {{Hilight Sidebar|[[Image:Survey_results.gif|left]] In October of ’06 we asked the Amanda community to answer a few questions about their usage of Amanda. Please review here the [[Results of Amanda Users Survey 2006]]}} | ||
== Amanda Documentation == | == Amanda Documentation == | ||
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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
- Platform Experts (new!)
- User documentation
- 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
- 2.5.2 features - 2.5.2 was released on May 3, 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.
- Amanda operators manual - This manual is used by Amanda Administrators at AIT in Thailand. The operators manual has information about tape management, troubleshooting, Amanda backup scheduling and Amanda index database.