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<td valign="center">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.</td> | <td valign="center">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.</td> | ||
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== Amanda Documentation == | == Amanda Documentation == | ||
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** [http://www.zmanda.com/amanda_advantage.html Advantages of Amanda over Proprietary Backup] - Requires free registration | ** [http://www.zmanda.com/amanda_advantage.html Advantages of Amanda over Proprietary Backup] - Requires free registration | ||
** [http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-parallel-backups.html Improving Amanda server performance] - Requires free registration | ** [http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-parallel-backups.html Improving Amanda server performance] - Requires free registration | ||
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== Amanda Surveys & Stories == | |||
* [[Results of Amanda Users Survey 2006]] | |||
* [[Results of Amanda Users Survey 2003]] | |||
* [[Amanda success stories]] | |||
* [[Amanda around the web]] | |||
== Amanda releases == | == Amanda releases == | ||
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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
- User documentation
- Developer documentation
- Wishlist/Features planned
- Amanda publications, white papers, and presentations
- Perl in the Amanda Core (new!)
- Effective Amazon EC2 Backup Strategy
- Advantages of Amanda over Proprietary Backup - Requires free registration
- Improving Amanda server performance - Requires free registration
Amanda Surveys & Stories
- Results of Amanda Users Survey 2006
- Results of Amanda Users Survey 2003
- Amanda success stories
- Amanda around the web
Amanda releases
- 2.6.0 features - 2.6.0p1 (bug fix release) released on May 14, 2008
- 2.5.2 features - 2.5.2p1 (bug fix release) released on Jun 6, 2007
- 2.5.1 features - 2.5.1p3 (bug fix release) released on Feb 8, 2007
- 2.5.0 features - 2.5.0p2 (bug fix release) released on May 8, 2006
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
- Lto-barcode - A perl script to generate barcode labels for LTO Tapes (not amanda specific)
- 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.
- chg-multiplex - A changer-script, intended to restore from multiple backup-configs
- ShowNextTapeNeeded - Bash script to determine which tapes will be required for the next dump
- Nagios script by Chad Kotil to monitor Amanda for errors and failures