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== Amanda Documentation ==
== Amanda Releases ==
* Amanda [[Quick start]]
<center>[http://www.amanda.org/download.php Download Amanda here]</center>
* [[User documentation]]
** [[Tapetype definitions]]
* [[Developer documentation]]
 
== Amanda releases ==
* [[2.6.1 features]] - 2.6.1b1 (beta release) is available (Nov 27, 2008)
* [[2.6.1 features]] - 2.6.1b1 (beta release) is available (Nov 27, 2008)
* [[2.6.0 features]] - 2.6.0p2 (bug fix release) released on Aug 26, 2008
* [[2.6.0 features]] - 2.6.0p2 (bug fix release) released on Aug 26, 2008
* [[Amanda Releases|more...]]
* [[Amanda Releases|more...]]


== Links ==
== Documentation ==
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda/ Amanda SourceForge page]
* [[User documentation]]
* [http://forums.zmanda.com/ Amanda Forums]
** Amanda [[Quick start]]
* [http://www.amanda.org Amanda project page]
** [[Troubleshooting|Troubleshooting]]: solutions to common problems
* [[About this Wiki]]
** [[FAQ]]: frequently asked questions
* [[Licenses, Copyrights and Trademarks]]
** [[How Tos]]: instructions for various common tasks
* [[Amanda Copyright]]
** [http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda.8.html Man pages]: the most up-to-date manual pages
* [[Administrative issues about this Wiki]]
* [[Developer documentation]]
** [[How To Help]]
** [[Changer API]]
** [[Device API]]
** [[Application API]]
** [[Script API]]


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* [[Amanda around the web]]
* [[Amanda around the web]]


== 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]]
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== 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'''
* [[Media:lto-barcodes.txt |Lto-barcode]] - A perl script to generate barcode labels for LTO Tapes (not amanda specific)
* [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.
* [https://wwws.cs.ait.ac.th/amanda/operator.shtml 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
* [http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2610.html;d=1 Nagios script] by Chad Kotil to monitor Amanda for errors and failures
* [[Wishlist/Features planned]]

Revision as of 18:23, 17 December 2008

     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 archival tools and can back up a large number of workstations and servers running various versions of Linux, Unix (including OpenSolaris), Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems (Native Win32 client and Samba).

Amanda Releases

Download Amanda here

Documentation

Amanda Publications, White Papers, and Presentations

Amanda Surveys & Stories

Links
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