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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>
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{{Hilight Sidebar|[[Image:Survey_results.gif|left]] <br><br>[[Results of Amanda Users Survey 2006]]}}
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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]]
** [[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]]
* [[Amanda publications|Amanda publications, white papers, and presentations]]
** [[Changer API]]
** [[Presentations/Perl_in_the_Amanda_Core|Perl in the Amanda Core]] (new!)
** [[Device API]]
** [[Media:effective_ec2_backup_strategy.pdf|Effective Amazon EC2 Backup Strategy]]  
** [[Application API]]
** [http://www.zmanda.com/amanda_advantage.html Advantages of Amanda over Proprietary Backup] - Requires free registration
** [[Script API]]
** [http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-parallel-backups.html Improving Amanda server performance] - Requires free registration
* [[Amanda user surveys and success stories]]
 
== Amanda releases ==
* [[2.6.0 features]] - 2.6.0b1 (beta release) on Jan 17,2008
* [[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 ==
 
* [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


* [[amserverconfig & amaddclient]] - Tools for easy 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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