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- * Deprecated old changers; see {{manv|3.1.3|7|amanda-changers}} for replacements. These changers are still available in the dis * Although chg-zd-mtx is still supported, we recommend that all users upgrade to the more efficient ...2 KB (289 words) - 13:53, 26 November 2010
- ...estore, and verify a particular kind of data. The most common application is {{man|8|amgtar}}, but in principle an application could be written to back ...354 bytes (55 words) - 19:11, 17 September 2012
- ...utar or gtar), so some versions of tar will not work with some versions of Amanda. <tr><th> </th><th>Amanda-2.5.1p2 and earlier</th><th>Amanda-2.5.1p3 and later</th></tr> ...3 KB (539 words) - 22:29, 19 March 2013
- ...space. For all but the last line of a multi-line reply, the 4th character is a '-'. |SCNF <config>||set AMANDA configuration to config ...2 KB (278 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2012
- {{Deprecated|This document only discusses the "bsd" auth; see {{man|7|amanda-auth}} for a more complete description}} Amanda uses both UDP and TCP ports during its operation. The amandad service is listening (via inetd/xinetd) at a well known (fixed) port on each client fo ...6 KB (1,034 words) - 17:28, 18 January 2010
- Disk List Entry, the quantum unit of Amanda backup. General usage was to describe a DLE as a partition, or file system. See also: [[FAQ:What is a DLE?]] ...335 bytes (59 words) - 08:43, 18 September 2012
- ...sts (the ones you are going to dump), you only need to compile some of the Amanda programs (See Backup client configuration). ...are that Amanda uses while running, you will need the following to compile Amanda: ...6 KB (902 words) - 14:04, 23 September 2012
- ...d authentication to exist between the Amanda server and its clients. This is variously known as the "Secure API", "Security API", and "Authentication" ...rations, the initiator is the server. For {{man|8|amrecover}}, the client is the initiator. ...6 KB (1,009 words) - 04:23, 14 October 2010
- ...re the client to talk to the server. Put the following in <tt>/etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf</tt>: 220 knuth AMANDA index server (3.2.1) ready. ...3 KB (407 words) - 09:37, 18 September 2012
- * A destination which packetizes and transmits data over the network is probably best implemented with buffers, so that the element can frame each Make all sensible pairs of mechanisms available, but do not write code that is duplicates work the glue elements will perform. In the first example above ...4 KB (645 words) - 16:28, 2 September 2010
- Amanda tape-spanning support is a new feature in the 2.5.0 release, enabling single dump files to be strung ...nto smaller chunks of a configurable size before writing to tape, allowing AMANDA to regard each individual piece as a dump file in its own right and followi ...4 KB (645 words) - 22:54, 30 July 2010
- ...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 a == Amanda Releases == ...3 KB (405 words) - 15:38, 25 August 2023
- ;?: parameter is ignored ;-: parameter is not given in amanda.conf ...5 KB (909 words) - 05:25, 29 June 2010
- {{Deprecated|See [[Getting Started with Amanda]] instead}} In real life, errors happen, and after solving the problems, you want Amanda to resume normal tasks as soon as possible. ...4 KB (677 words) - 23:44, 1 January 2011
- Backup encryption is used for two purposes: It is becoming routine to hear of companies losing control of massive amounts of ...4 KB (621 words) - 09:05, 28 September 2012
- ...://www.inventivetechnology.at/tapecat tapecat] - Information regarding the amanda tape and tape contents are displayed. The information includes the tape lab * [[Media:amandatape.txt |amandatape]] - A perl script to print labels for Amanda backup tapes. Download the file and save it as '''amandatape''' ...2 KB (366 words) - 02:56, 15 November 2016
- ...ations on a Client]]. Note that the implementation of the Application API is [[Application API/Implementation|still in progress]]. Most of the useful content is held in subpages ...3 KB (374 words) - 09:09, 17 December 2023
- Here is a Quick Setup for a test configuration with a virtual tape changer, emulati ...features of amanda, or get more familiar with all the possible options in amanda.conf and the dumptype options. And you can practice restores quickly. ...5 KB (823 words) - 23:07, 21 October 2010
- ...nux OS that does not appear to be immediately compatible to the version of Amanda due to dependencies, or perhaps a windows client. I have developed this fro ...should have basic shell skills, understand the scp utility, and have your amanda server up and running on the network with data to restore. ...4 KB (528 words) - 19:04, 19 April 2010
- {{Deprecated|See [[Getting Started with Amanda]] instead}} Backup reporting is done using {{man|8|amreport}} command. ...780 bytes (113 words) - 23:45, 1 January 2011
- Amanda is a critical application, and one in which an unanticipated failure, such as ...new functionality. Of course, no set of tests can completely characterize Amanda's behavior, but the more tests we run, the better the chances of catching p ...6 KB (972 words) - 17:36, 15 March 2010
- ...<tt>/home/[a-o]*</tt> and <tt>/home/[p-z]*</tt>. A more extended example is provided below. ...emains smaller than a tape. This will lead to smaller single dumps so that Amanda can continue the backup of other dumps on the next tape, if need be. ...6 KB (902 words) - 02:09, 9 November 2018
- ..."vaulting" to describe copying data from one [[volume]] to another. This is most often used to extract dumps for archiving, so the source volumes are g The tool to use for vaulting is, appropriately enough, {{man|8|amvault}}. ...3 KB (478 words) - 16:21, 13 September 2017
- you get back a "magic" scalar. This is used to support setting those values: print Amanda::Util::quote_string($hdr->{'name'}); ...904 bytes (144 words) - 20:50, 6 February 2010
- ...nt auto-label from erasing tapes. Auto-label is disabled from claiming non-Amanda and other configuration labels by default. This change will prevent rewriti * client code will not fail if shared memory is not available ...2 KB (300 words) - 15:39, 25 August 2023
- ...API]]: Allow to easily write wrappers around any backup program, see the 'amanda-applications' man page. ** {{manv|2.6.1|8|amgtar}}: Use GNU tar, it is a lot more configurable than the GNUTAR program. ...2 KB (247 words) - 14:05, 26 November 2010
- ...larger than available tape storage, this can cause dumps to fail badly, as Amanda cannot fit dumps for all [[DLE]]s on tape. ...files]] not only to find files on tapes, but to allow GNU tar to calculate what has changed on a partition from day to day. When tar runs, it takes an ind ...5 KB (759 words) - 20:41, 7 September 2011
- ...gy to real, physical tapes. If you want to use more than one tape in your Amanda configuration, you need: Amanda's terms for these are, respectively: ...2 KB (267 words) - 22:23, 19 March 2013
- # /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover woo 220 backupserver AMANDA index server (2.4.4p3) ready. ...3 KB (450 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2011
- To ensure correct backups of your virtual machines install the Amanda client in all your virtual machines and exclude the VMWare files on the hos ...disks and the virtual machine memory. For each of these files a lock file is also created. All these files can be excluded: ...4 KB (745 words) - 12:09, 31 December 2010
- Pages linked from here describe common problems with Amanda, their causes, and their solutions. The same article may be linked under s * [[Amcheck cannot login as the amanda user]] ...6 KB (750 words) - 14:55, 21 February 2018
- ...t> on spareserver, the host you started up to take its place. However, it is not a good solution for situations where different backup clients should no In version 3.2, Amanda can fix this. ...1 KB (203 words) - 08:46, 27 September 2012
- ...like <tt>sendsize</tt> or <tt>amidxtaped</tt>. Amanda serves as a sort of amanda-specific inetd, but adds support for multiple parallel communication channe ...hat amidxtaped speaks, and takes over where this page leaves off. Amandad is always on the receiving end of the [[Security API]], so a familiarity with ...6 KB (1,013 words) - 18:30, 27 September 2010
- ...package, as it is not installed by default on most Linux distributions. It is possible to find compiled versions of dump on most Linux sites and CD-ROMs. ...fixed by cleaning up outdated entries in /etc/dumpdates, but your best bet is probably GNU-tar. ...5 KB (660 words) - 12:25, 21 August 2009
- ...ccordingly in <tt>/usr/lib/amanda/application/</tt> (may be <tt>/usr/lib64/amanda/application/</tt> if a 64-bit install). The scripts can be executed once fo * to stop and start database servers so that the binary backup is consistent. ...6 KB (836 words) - 20:48, 1 September 2017
- Using RAIT to mirror dumps is deprecated, see [[How To:Write dump to multiple storage]] for better mechan The basis of a RAIT configuration is the [[RAIT Device]], which allows Amanda to mirror (with two child devices) or stripe with parity (with 3 or more ch ...6 KB (884 words) - 14:35, 29 January 2018
- The Glib documentation on GValues is a bit verbose, and requires you to understand the Glib type system fairly w As a shortcut to changing the type of a GValue, you can use the Amanda utility function ...2 KB (331 words) - 20:00, 6 May 2010
- The Device API is a clean interface between Amanda and data-storage systems. It provides a tape-like model -- a sequence of b ...Device API also adds a number of new features not previously available in Amanda. These include: ...7 KB (1,207 words) - 14:57, 28 September 2010
- Let's jump right in. Presumably you have Amanda-3.2.0 or higher installed already! ...bly "amandabackup" or "amanda" or "backup", depending on how you installed Amanda. We'll use "amandabackup" here to avoid ambiguity. As root: ...7 KB (997 words) - 09:31, 18 September 2012
- Disk List Entry, la plus petite entité de sauvegarde d'Amanda. Au paravant on décrivait une DLE comme une partition, ou un système de fic Cf [[FAQ:What is a DLE?/Fr|FAQ:Qu'est-ce qu'une DLE]] ...447 bytes (77 words) - 14:38, 24 September 2012
- For an Amanda 2.5.0 server and later: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ...12 KB (1,809 words) - 17:44, 13 October 2010
- ...ndad, then it processes its REQ packet and produces a REP packet for the [[Amanda Protocol]] as described in [[Amandad Service Protocol]]. the control connection is bidirectional, while the data connection only carries data from amidxtaped. ...9 KB (1,463 words) - 01:09, 1 August 2010
- == Amanda Server Configuration == ...o add the ampgsql application and a corresponding dumptype to your {{man|5|amanda.conf}} ...6 KB (891 words) - 15:32, 1 June 2011
- ...with include and exclude behavior; see [[FAQ:What versions of GNU Tar are Amanda-compatible?|the GNU Tar FAQ entry]] for other undesirable behaviors. ...against an embedded newline). In particular, note that <tt>\?</tt>, which is unquoted to <tt>\0177</tt> does not match a literal <tt>?</tt> <i>or</i> <t ...18 KB (3,058 words) - 23:14, 18 May 2011
- {{man|8|amgtar}} is an [[application]] available in Amanda 2.6.1 and later releases. Amgtar uses GNU tar to do backup and recovery. Th ...a Applications on a Client]] for a more general description of configuring Amanda applications. ...2 KB (187 words) - 20:15, 1 January 2011
- {{Deprecated|See [[Getting Started with Amanda]] instead}} == Server configuration file - amanda.conf== ...7 KB (1,046 words) - 23:48, 1 January 2011
- There are three ways of excluding data in an AMANDA backup: The only way to exclude files or directories with AMANDA is to use GNU-tar as the dump program (others?). The file system dump programs ...12 KB (1,950 words) - 17:33, 11 April 2013
- ...sent unecrypted. See "SSL" below, or [[How To:Set up data encryption]] for amanda's encryption options and procedures. ...S3 device interfaces with the Device API, and as such is only available in Amanda-2.6.0 and later. ...6 KB (904 words) - 23:01, 21 October 2010
- ...litsize</tt>, <tt>split_diskbuffer</tt> and <tt>fallback_splitsize</tt> in Amanda 3.1 or earlier). See also [[How To:Split Dumps Across Tapes]] and {{man|5|amanda.conf}}. ...663 bytes (115 words) - 09:09, 18 September 2012
- ...bles par liens depuis ici décrivent les problèmes courants rencontrés avec Amanda. Un même article peut se retrouver sous différentes catégories pour une rec * [[Amcheck cannot login as the amanda user]] ...6 KB (806 words) - 15:56, 27 September 2012
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...818 bytes (110 words) - 02:14, 8 June 2010
- ** [[Fork Amanda on Github]] - Easiest way to start hacking * [[Testing]] - How to test Amanda ...4 KB (536 words) - 13:47, 22 January 2011
- One simple method to avoid this is to create a small shell script where paths and options are explicitly state ...t-ipv6 --enable-threads=solaris --disable-nls --with-group=sys --with-user=amanda \ ...6 KB (935 words) - 19:01, 17 December 2010
- Amanda uses GLib to manage strings. You should, in particular, see these pages: The returned pointer array is guaranteed to be terminated with a NULL pointer. So, if you want to walk th ...5 KB (798 words) - 18:10, 5 June 2011
- ...configuring a firewall using iptables for use with Amanda. The recipe here is minimalistic, in that we open only ports that '''need''' to be opened, with This section assumes "bsd" authentication is being used between Amanda server and client. This section covers ...10 KB (1,368 words) - 21:13, 21 September 2009
- Amanda has the ability to use a hard disk to store the contents of backups onto vi ...our virtual tape changer. If you can't create the link above, neither can Amanda. ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 22:58, 21 October 2010
- Properties that are specified in the Amanda configuration are provided to the application as additional command-line op ...exclude-file</code>, and <code>--exclude-list</code>. <code>--level</code> is used to support incremental backups. <code>--level 0</code> signifies a bas ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 21:08, 14 April 2016
- ** default to /etc/amanda-security.conf ** All previous release of amanda allow the 'amanda' user to execute any code as root, and to execute an interactive shell as r ...7 KB (984 words) - 13:46, 10 February 2016
- Zmanda Windows Client Community Edition is an Amanda client for Windows platform that uses native Win32 API and uses Volume Shad ...guration tool - ZWCconfig. Allows configuration of ports that are used and amanda server name. ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 00:38, 1 September 2016
- ..., and N is a sequence number starting at 0. These log files represent the Amanda catalog -- the database describing the contents of storage volumes (tapes). ...re the most recent backup is kept in the [[curinfo|curinfo database]], and is read by "amadmin xx info"). ...14 KB (2,097 words) - 15:57, 5 January 2011
- == Amanda success stories == Wanted to heap on the praise to the Amanda team for continuing to put out a great package. ...4 KB (672 words) - 20:02, 5 September 2009
- ...of any sort quite easily by simply dumping it to a static file before each Amanda run. ...base, you should use continuous WAL archiving as described on [[How To:Use Amanda to Back Up PostgreSQL]]. This gets you real incremental dumps and easier r ...1 KB (249 words) - 16:13, 6 January 2011
- ...th the new 'taper-parallel-write' configuration option. see {{manv|3.2.0|5|amanda.conf}} ..., part-cache-type, part-cache-dir, part-cache-max-size. see {{manv|3.2.0|5|amanda.conf}} ...2 KB (337 words) - 13:58, 26 November 2010
- ...here are alternatives available, the recommended changer for virtual tapes is ''chg-disk''. ...[[FAQ:Should I use a holdingdisk when the final destination of the backup is a virtual tape?|the FAQ entry]]. ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 05:48, 9 November 2018
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ''This is "Jason's new and improved chg-scsi documentation", written by an unknown co ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 02:14, 8 June 2010
- ** amanda-security.conf is now in $sysconfdir * A CRC is computed on the backup image and is verified on restore. ...4 KB (574 words) - 17:45, 8 June 2017
- Amanda has been tested on Mac OS X Panther (10.3), Tiger (10.4), Leopard (10.5) an ...Fortunately, Tiger's <tt>tar</tt> does support extended attributes, so an amanda installation will work "out of the box". See [[Mac OS X Extended Attribute ...26 KB (3,480 words) - 14:19, 29 October 2010
- ...note that this list is very old - many of these items are now available in Amanda!}} AMANDA Core Team ...12 KB (1,993 words) - 18:42, 12 July 2010
- Donc sauvegarder juste "localhost" n'est pas assez pour vous ? Amanda vous a démasqué! ...hiffrement comme des "armes". De fait, l'authentification client/serveur d'Amanda consistait en un username et quelques vérifications simplistes des entrées ...4 KB (684 words) - 14:14, 17 September 2012
- ...o databases: users and artifacts. The only database that must be backed up is the database with users, because Apache Archiva can regenerate the database Here is an example Linux shell script that keeps a copy of the database of the last ...3 KB (517 words) - 09:14, 6 December 2010
- Compression in hardware, i.e. in the tapedrive itself, is not done by writing the bits in a higher Hardware compression is achieved with an algorithm, built into the firmware of the tapedrive, which ...15 KB (2,541 words) - 05:01, 25 August 2009
- ...ient pour qu'il parle avec le serveur. Appliquer cela dans <tt>/etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf</tt>: 220 knuth AMANDA index server (3.2.1) ready. ...3 KB (444 words) - 11:40, 2 October 2012
- {{Needs Attention Header|This is just a collection of notes; it needs testing and writing out as a [[How Tos ==What is needed to recover encrypted tapes == ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 15:13, 17 June 2017
- {{Deprecated|See [[Getting Started with Amanda]] instead}} ...escribes how to restore files backed up with Amanda either with or without Amanda tools. The section has been presented as multiple examples. ...21 KB (3,436 words) - 14:37, 21 April 2011
- ...'Quick Start' is neither quick nor up to date. See [[Getting Started With Amanda]] instead.}} == Installing Amanda == ...31 KB (4,748 words) - 23:41, 1 January 2011
- {{Deprecated|See [[Getting Started with Amanda]] instead}} == Amanda client configuration file == ...31 KB (4,869 words) - 23:48, 1 January 2011
- Sautons à pieds joints. Nous présumons que vous avez déjà installé Amanda-3.2.0 ou plus! ..."amanda" ou "backup", ce qui dépend de la manière dont vous avez installé Amanda. Nous utiliserons "amandabackup" ici pour éviter l'ambiguité. Comme root: ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 07:49, 2 October 2012
- ...ows and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup & Recovery by the same author, now revis '''Chapter 4 describes the open source backup and recovery software Amanda.''' ...54 KB (8,974 words) - 18:40, 18 March 2011
- ...verify the capacity (is hardware compression "on" by mistake?) and speed (is there a problem with my SCSI chain?). This allows Amanda to do better planning, because you waste a lot of capacity when ...25 KB (3,126 words) - 22:39, 12 September 2012
- Cela permet à Amanda de plannifier de manière plus efficace, parce que vous perdez beaucoup de p ...ropre tapetype, vous devriez vous référer à la section tapetype de {{man|5|amanda.conf}}. ...25 KB (3,192 words) - 11:40, 17 September 2012