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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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== Amanda Documentation ==
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== Amanda Releases ==
<center>[http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php Download Amanda here]</center>
* [[3.5 features]] - 3.5.4 released on August 25, 2023
* [[3.5 features]] - 3.5.3 released on May 3, 2023
* [[3.5 features]] - 3.5.2 released on July 20, 2022
* [[3.5 features]] - 3.5.1 released on December 01, 2017
* [[3.4 features]] - 3.4.5 released on June 8, 2017
* [[3.3 features]] - 3.3.9 released on February 10, 2016
* [[3.2 features]] - 3.2.3 released on May 9, 2011
* [[3.1 features]] - 3.1.3 released on October 5, 2010
** 3.1.2 <span style="color: red">security alert</span> - [http://amanda.org/secalert-3-1-2.php details]
* [[2.6.1 features]] - 2.6.1p2 released on Nov 6, 2009
* [[Amanda Releases|more...]]


== Documentation ==
* [[User documentation]]
* [[User documentation]]
* [[Man pages]]
** [[Getting Started with Amanda]]
** [[Troubleshooting]]: solutions to common problems
** [[FAQ]]: frequently asked questions
** [[How Tos]]: instructions for various common tasks
** [http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/ Man pages]: the most up-to-date manual pages
** [http://wiki.zmanda.com/pod/ Pod pages]: the most up-to-date perl POD pages
** [[:Category:Glossary|Glossary]]
* [[Developer documentation]]
* [[Developer documentation]]
* [[Wishlist/Features planned]]
** [[How To Help]]
* [[References]]
** [[Changer API]]
* [[Success stories]]
** [[Device API]]
 
** [[Application API]]
Please spare few minutes of your time and to fill out the
** [[Script API]]
[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
Amanda community. Your responses will be published in aggregate form on the [http://wiki.zmanda.com Amanda Wiki],
[http://forums.zmanda.com 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 ==
 
* 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.
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== Amanda Publications, White Papers, and Presentations ==
* Amanda and Lustre [[Media:lustre-amanda.pdf|PDF]]  
* [[Presentations/Perl_in_the_Amanda_Core|Perl in the Amanda Core]]
* [[Media:effective_ec2_backup_strategy.pdf|Effective Amazon EC2 Backup Strategy]]  
* [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
* [[Amanda publications|more...]]


== Other Links ==
== Amanda Surveys & Stories ==
* [[Amanda success stories]]
* [[Amanda around the web]]


* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda/ Amanda SourceForge page]
== Links ==
* [http://forums.zmanda.com/ Amanda Forums]
* [http://zmanda.com/ Zmanda Enterprise Backup and Recovery]
* [http://www.amanda.org Amanda project page]
* [https://github.com/zmanda/amanda Amanda Github page]
* [https://github.com/zmanda/amanda#amanda Amanda project page on Github]
* [[About this Wiki]]
* [[About this Wiki]]
* [[Licenses, Copyrights and Trademarks]]
* [[Licenses, Copyrights and Trademarks]]
* [[Amanda Copyright]]
* [[Amanda Copyright]]
* [[Administrative issues about this Wiki]]
* [[Administrative issues about this Wiki]]
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Latest revision as of 15:38, 25 August 2023

     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- or cloud-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 Windows client and Samba).

Amanda Releases

Download Amanda here

Documentation

Amanda Publications, White Papers, and Presentations

Amanda Surveys & Stories

Links
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