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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
- Man pages
- Developer documentation
- Wishlist/Features planned
- References
- Success stories
Amanda releases
Quick Links
- Amanda Quick start procedure
- Amanda Tapetype definitions
Tools that can be useful for Amanda users
- 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.
- testgtar - A perl script to GNU tar exclude patterns. It takes exclude file and DLE as the parameters.