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- Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the LAN administrator to set up a single master ...back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of UNIX. Amanda can also back up the data from Microsoft Windows hosts using either the nat ...592 bytes (98 words) - 23:39, 1 January 2011
- #REDIRECT [[What is Amanda?]] ...29 bytes (4 words) - 22:07, 24 July 2010
- ...a is the open source backup application. Zmanda is the company sponsoring Amanda's development. For more details, see [http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-enterprise-faq.html Amanda Enterprise FAQ]. ...227 bytes (30 words) - 22:05, 19 March 2013
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- ...to describe the change from one backup-level to the next higher level. If Amanda changes from Level 0 to Level 1 for a specific [[DLE]], it "[[Bump|bumps]]" The basic goal of "bumping" is to save precious space on the backup media as higher level incremental back ...1 KB (172 words) - 22:30, 19 March 2013
- Promoting is the action of doing a full backup of a [[DLE]] when it is not due. ...al of amanda is to balance the size of full backup at every run, that size is: ...821 bytes (143 words) - 09:11, 18 September 2012
- ...anda by users who are unfamiliar with how it works. If you have installed Amanda and are having trouble, you may also want to check the [[Troubleshooting]] * [[FAQ:What is the difference between Amanda and Zmanda?]] ...2 KB (386 words) - 14:14, 29 January 2018
- ...ateurs qui sont peu familiers de son fonctionnement. Si vous avez installé Amanda et que vous rencontrez des problèmes, vous pouvez aussi parcourir la sectio ...ifference between Amanda and Zmanda?/Fr|FAQ:Quelle est la différence entre Amanda et Zmanda ?]] ...3 KB (471 words) - 17:12, 10 October 2012
- ...a is the open source backup application. Zmanda is the company sponsoring Amanda's development. For more details, see [http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-enterprise-faq.html Amanda Enterprise FAQ]. ...227 bytes (30 words) - 22:05, 19 March 2013
- ...d is only available in Amanda-2.6.0 and later) or "ssh" auth. See {{man|7|amanda-auth}} for details. ...see the corresponding troubleshooting article, [[planner: ERROR Request to AMANDA CLIENT failed: timeout waiting for ACK]]. ...492 bytes (72 words) - 22:09, 19 March 2013
- ...Amanda is concerned, though, it is just a very large bunch of data. Only Amanda [[application]]s know how to interpret the data in a dumpfile. This term is sometimes used ambiguously to refer to a single file on tape (which may onl ...465 bytes (82 words) - 08:52, 18 September 2012
- There are several channels available for Amanda support: * The [http://www.amanda.org/support/mailinglists.php amanda-users@amanda.org] mailing list ...402 bytes (57 words) - 22:04, 19 March 2013
- ...refuse to overwrite a tape inserted sooner than it should be. This refusal is accomplished through a proper value for tapecycle which depends on [[runspe ...properly and will create at least the possibility of overwriting data that is still needed for a full restore. ...1 KB (211 words) - 09:17, 18 September 2012
- This feature is available from Amanda 3.3 ...as virtual tapes. The user has to load and unload hard disks. Here is the amanda.conf configuration for removable hard disk changers. ...1 KB (204 words) - 17:03, 1 April 2011
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...tatus data in files whose names start with the `changerfile'. `changerdev' is ignored. ...340 bytes (53 words) - 02:15, 8 June 2010
- This is a common problem reported by new admins of Amanda configs that have been working since the last admin left. ...far larger than the size when the Amanda configuration was last adjusted. Amanda sends daily report emails which contain enough information to anticipate th ...1 KB (183 words) - 22:09, 19 March 2013
- ...ically emulated tapes on disk, and so these were called vtapes. This name is still used quite often in documentation and on the mailing list. ...an Amanda configuration. Here is a partial list of devices. See {{man|7|amanda-devices}} for the full, current list. ...1 KB (244 words) - 22:23, 19 March 2013
- ...ate some temporary files. These files can cause ''strange'' results on the Amanda server: <pre>? gtar: ./etc/amanda/DailySet1/index/hostname/_/20101206010001_0.gz.tmp: Warning: Cannot stat: N ...2 KB (272 words) - 08:49, 31 December 2010
- While Amanda's run-time and build-time requirements are minimal, Amanda development requires fairly new versions of several tools. Note that the process of building an Amanda distribution tarball: ...1 KB (196 words) - 08:15, 19 September 2012
- ...Some contention can occur with larger numbers of backups, but this effect is relatively small on most systems. Default is 10. ...435 bytes (69 words) - 09:00, 18 September 2012
- #redirect [[Amanda:What is the 'amandates' file for?]] ...54 bytes (8 words) - 21:43, 2 November 2018
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...ape in the juke, it is supposed to be in max_slot and not in slot 1. [This is the first version of the changer script and I would appreciate all comments ...781 bytes (144 words) - 02:14, 8 June 2010
- As of Amanda-3.2, Amanda suports limiting the hosts that can recover a particular DLE. ...ation authenticates connections from a remote host, but the authentication is always host-based, and have very little to do with usernames. The SSH auth ...1 KB (217 words) - 08:26, 27 September 2012
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...`changerdev' will be passed to CHS in a -f command-line switch, unless it is set to an empty string or "/dev/null" (watch out for default values!) ...447 bytes (68 words) - 02:14, 8 June 2010
- ...becoming familiar with Amanda’s backup planning strategy and from letting Amanda do the planning. ...vering a system would require every tape since the last full backup. Using Amanda’s standard backup planning strategy avoids that problem and typically gives ...5 KB (811 words) - 22:11, 19 March 2013
- ...rom [http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php Zmanda downloads] page, see Amanda [[Zmanda Windows Client|Windows Client]] installation instructions.''' |Amanda commands||/usr/sbin||/opt/amanda/sbin||amadmin, amrecover ...3 KB (361 words) - 14:48, 10 October 2019
- ...ring a single backup run. Similarly, when a volume is more than one tape, Amanda will only use as many of the tapes needed for that run. If less than "runt ...697 bytes (127 words) - 09:13, 18 September 2012
- ...a-cla.html Zmanda Contributor License Agreement] first. No part of Amanda is covered by the GPLv3. ...759 bytes (122 words) - 21:25, 29 January 2010
- ...ps while the network usage is at or above the given threshold. The default is 80000 Kbps. ...315 bytes (48 words) - 09:08, 18 September 2012
- ...ackup data. A volume can be erased all at once before it is overwritten. Amanda labels each volume, and uses the labels to locate the data contained on the For backups to tape, a volume is simply a tape. For other kinds of storage, Amanda still uses the same model, but we use the more general term "volume" to inc ...437 bytes (77 words) - 09:27, 18 September 2012
- ...m a simple observation about Amanda: its core job is to move data around. Amanda has the [[Application API]], which handles getting data from clients (and r ...It is similar to [http://www.gstreamer.net GStreamer], but optimized for Amanda's needs rather than those of media streaming applications. ...2 KB (267 words) - 19:52, 18 January 2010
- ...ature is available from [http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/3.4_features#3.4 Amanda 3.4]. A volume is assigned to a particular pool using '''amlabel''', after which that volume ...607 bytes (86 words) - 14:01, 13 September 2017
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...ate, 'tapedev' must be the tape drive (or RAIT set) name, and 'changerdev' is the juke software's name for the changer, or a csh-glob that expands to sev ...686 bytes (110 words) - 02:14, 8 June 2010
- DAR works only if the backup is not compressed or encrypted by amanda. At restore time, it use the DAR state file to tell amanda which bytes from the backup it need. ...2 KB (290 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2016
- ...ed|This changer, with its separate changerfile, is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ..."$slot_root_dir" appears in the tapedev as "file:$slot_root_dir", and "n" is the tapecycle parameter. ...1 KB (189 words) - 18:55, 12 July 2010
- ...clients (computers that are backed up by Amanda server). It contains only Amanda client. Check [http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php Zmanda Downloads] page for instructions how to perform signature verifi ...2 KB (257 words) - 09:45, 21 September 2012
- Amanda can write to multiple volumes in parallel, saving a lot of time. * A different dle is sent to each volume. ...1 KB (213 words) - 23:20, 28 September 2010
- ...in {{man|5|amanda.conf}}, or with the <tt>tape_splitsize</tt> parameter in Amanda-3.1 and earlier. ...emory or on disk. In many cases, a cache is not required because the data is already available in holding disk. The <tt>part_cache_type</tt>, <tt>part_ ...731 bytes (120 words) - 09:15, 18 September 2012
- ...ature is available from [http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/3.4_features#3.4 Amanda 3.4]. ...al '''tapecycle''' parameter used for this purpose in previous versions of Amanda. ...497 bytes (67 words) - 00:26, 25 September 2017
- ...on, you want to delay the writing of tapes, there is a way you can prevent Amanda from using the next tape with amdump's -o flag ("o" for options). Should y ...ape changer, the override of ''tpchanger=""'' is necessary. Without this, Amanda will talk to your tape changer to find the actual tape device name. ...3 KB (408 words) - 14:49, 10 October 2012
- ...nda's "current" state. It is the data used to run ''amadmin - info'', and is dumped in its entirety by ''amadmin - export''. ...ext format (identical to the output of ''amadmin - export'', in fact), but is programmatically accessed as a database. Even in large installations, it d ...1 KB (227 words) - 09:46, 26 September 2012
- This is a follow-on error to problems with glib. Configure is trying to use the compiler to determine a simple system parameter (sizeof(i ...last compiler invocation in the "Core tests" section will show, in detail, what errors configure encountered. ...2 KB (273 words) - 22:05, 25 May 2010
- Amanda can optionally make use of the following packages to back up different type ...ar (some versions of 1.13 and 1.14) are [[FAQ:What versions of GNU Tar are Amanda-compatible?|known to have problems]]. ...2 KB (395 words) - 07:19, 19 September 2012
- ...ty streams over the same operating-system stream (e.g., a socket or pipe), Amanda uses TCPM Framing, which presumably stands for "TCP Multiplexing". ...nvented by the two ends do no collide. Each frame of data for each stream is transmitted with the following format: ...2 KB (364 words) - 20:40, 11 October 2010
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...AZZ disks of various sizes as well as any other removable disk media. This is a PURELY MANUAL changer. It requests insertion of disk media via messages o ...1 KB (174 words) - 02:13, 8 June 2010
- ...code easier to read and write. However, Amanda's minimum version required is Glib-2.2.0, which was released in late 2002. Your development system proba ...b's child watch source -- Amanda provides a replacement in event.h / {{pod|Amanda::MainLoop}}) ...1 KB (175 words) - 17:30, 7 December 2009
- This feature is available from Amanda 3.3 A meta volume is a container for many volumes. A meta label is the label of a meta volume. Use amlabel to create ...784 bytes (133 words) - 14:40, 24 September 2012
- ...ns of Gnutar play well with amanda. See [[FAQ:What versions of GNU Tar are Amanda-compatible?]]. ...386 bytes (64 words) - 08:58, 18 September 2012
- ...out - using the manpages and the rest of this wiki - how to make Amanda do what you need. First up, you'll need to get Amanda installed. This guide assumes Amanda-3.2.0 or later, which your operating system's package library may not conta ...2 KB (291 words) - 07:22, 6 January 2011
- * [[Getting Started with Amanda]] ** [[Installation/Amanda's Requirements|Amanda's Requirements]] ...3 KB (345 words) - 21:47, 18 July 2014
- ...itative documentation on configuring authentication in Amanda, see {{man|7|amanda-auth}}. There are several authentication mechanisms available for Amanda, so which one should you choose? ...6 KB (817 words) - 16:11, 20 November 2010
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...can also be used with a single physical drive to write several tapes in an AMANDA run. ...1 KB (221 words) - 02:15, 8 June 2010
- Amanda backs up each [[DLE]] at a specific level, as determined by the planner. G In Amanda, a level-0 backup is a full dump: all data from the DLE is backed up, and a recovery from this dump will get all of that data back. ...1 KB (271 words) - 09:01, 18 September 2012
- ...st, which can be confused with the tapelist file (which, naturally enough, is implemented in <tt>server-src/tapefile.c</tt>). A tapespec is a semicolon-separated list of volumes, where each volume is specified as a label, a colon, and a comma-separated list of file numbers o ...829 bytes (131 words) - 04:49, 23 February 2010
- ...amdump]] during one [[dumpcycle]] assuming one run per day. This supplies Amanda with the necessary information to calculate how often it needs to do full b Please see {{man|5|amanda.conf}} for information on amanda.conf parameters. ...557 bytes (87 words) - 09:12, 18 September 2012
- ...tibility}} for the most up-to-date information about compatibility between Amanda versions. The recommended course for upgrades is to upgrade the server to 2.5 first, and test backups and restores before up ...470 bytes (64 words) - 08:16, 27 September 2012
- There is multiple way to achieve it, the best technique depend of the speed and para You define two storages and configure amanda to write all dump to both storages: ...2 KB (326 words) - 15:11, 29 January 2018
- ...’06 we asked Amanda community to answer 22 questions about their usage of Amanda. Within 45 days we received 165 replies. Dmitri Joukovski (dj at zmanda dot * 95% of respondents would recommend Amanda to a friend. ...5 KB (645 words) - 07:14, 19 January 2018
- ...server can send multiple DLEs to different volumes at the same time. This is useful if you write to more than one volume in a run and the changer have m ...should be set up (see [[How To:Split Dumps Across Tapes]]), although this is not strictly required. ...2 KB (231 words) - 23:26, 28 September 2010
- The cause of this is usually a firewall between the server and client (or on one of them) that t ...kup program. When there are no errors, the only thing that is transferred is the summary at the end (for gnutar: "Total size: 123456789 bytes"). ...2 KB (354 words) - 10:56, 18 November 2010
- ...ion that has been in place for many years! The misconfiguration can cause Amanda to produce too many parts for a dump. This has unfortunate consequences: ...flush its buffers and write a filemark thousands of times per tape. This is less significant with vtapes. ...5 KB (754 words) - 17:35, 6 July 2010
- ...he GNU tar format to store information about the incrementals has changed. Amanda 2.5.1 treats gnutar incremental files as opaque files. ...tionality as [[amrecover]] command) is provided for compatibility with old Amanda releases. ''amoldrecover'' command uses old amidxtaped/amindexd protocol. ...3 KB (353 words) - 17:49, 13 October 2010
- ...on cause of this problem is not having enabled index generation in {{man|5|amanda.conf}}. The <tt>index yes</tt> option must be present in every dumptype for * Amrecover is not selecting the configuration name that contains the backups for the sele ...2 KB (375 words) - 00:23, 2 June 2010
- New versions of Amanda can communicate with very old versions of Amanda, and to do so they use some old authenticaitons. This page builds on [[How ...s is the case for backward-compatibility reasons, and unless you have old (Amanda-2.4) clients, you don't want to use bsd auth. ...8 KB (1,097 words) - 00:34, 19 February 2017
- ...out - using the manpages and the rest of this wiki - how to make Amanda do what you need. First up, you'll need to get Amanda installed. This guide assumes Amanda-3.2.0 or later, which your operating system's package library may not conta ...3 KB (271 words) - 07:30, 6 January 2011
- ...of the local machine where ''ZRM for MySQL'' runs. Default directory used is ''/var/lib/mysql-zrm''. ...work based backup and recovery utilities such as [http://amanda.zmanda.com Amanda] ...2 KB (336 words) - 16:16, 26 September 2012
- ...out - using the manpages and the rest of this wiki - how to make Amanda do what you need. First up, you'll need to get Amanda installed. This guide assumes Amanda-3.2.0 or later, which your operating system's package library may not conta ...3 KB (272 words) - 19:41, 17 September 2012
- ...ossible. This page links to the various scripts that are available in the Amanda distribution. See [[Changer API]] for help writing a new changer script. ...here possible, you are encouraged to use the new changer API. See {{man|7|amanda-changers}} in your distribution for information on the old and new changers ...5 KB (799 words) - 16:02, 27 September 2012
- ...f}}, {{man|5|amanda-client.conf}}, and the {{man|5|disklist}}. The syntax is shell-like -- all of the following are considered a single word: ...499 bytes (73 words) - 09:19, 27 September 2012
- You are notified (or not notified) by amanda of a failure involving amdump or amflush (or ?) to this effect: taper: critical (fatal): Can't locate auto/Amanda/Device/Device/swig_volume.al in @INC... ...1,005 bytes (162 words) - 13:09, 4 February 2012
- == Amanda wins 2009 Linux Journal Reader's Choice award == == Amanda Wordle == ...3 KB (491 words) - 18:31, 8 September 2011
- This page is about the "new", Perl Changer API, which was introduced in Amanda-2.6.1. For the old (pre-2.6.1) changer API, see [[Changer API (1.0)]]. ...he caller has exclusive use of the underlying device until the reservation is explicitly released. Other parts of the same application, or other process ...5 KB (738 words) - 20:07, 1 January 2011
- ...ckup of only complete filesystems. Finer granularity of filesystem backups is not possible. ...ng if a file is changed while being read; it's up to you to decide if that is bad or not for a particular file. GNUTAR normally modifies the last access ...2 KB (310 words) - 18:37, 19 August 2016
- ...' done is beyond the scope of this document. Also helpful is [[Installing Amanda on Mac OS X]] ...d install it into a temporary location (<tt>/tmp/amroot</tt>). The result is essentially an overlay containing the files that <tt>make install</tt> woul ...4 KB (564 words) - 20:27, 18 July 2012
- ...ther. Changers are described in {{man|7|amanda-changers}} and specified in amanda.conf. See also: [[FAQ:What's the difference between a device and a changer? Between tapedev and tpchan ...528 bytes (78 words) - 08:37, 18 September 2012
- ...transmissions which are essentially superfluous in modern installations of Amanda. A partial reply to a request, indicating that the sender is still working and will reply later. ...3 KB (446 words) - 01:06, 1 August 2010
- Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the LAN administrator to set up a single master ...back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of UNIX. Amanda can also back up the data from Microsoft Windows hosts using either the nat ...592 bytes (98 words) - 23:39, 1 January 2011
- ...tarted from amandad, 'amdumpd' must be added in the amandad argument if it is executed by xinetd. It processes its REQ packet and produces a REP packet for the [[Amanda Protocol]] as described in [[Amandad Service Protocol]]. ...2 KB (311 words) - 12:37, 8 March 2018
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...225 bytes (36 words) - 02:13, 8 June 2010
- ...ation and how they fit together. Note that an {{man|8|amvault}} operation is simply a recovery "glued" (using the [[Transfer Architecture]]) to a taper ...hat they can be done without any catalog information, and often without an Amanda configuration present at all. We'll cover these separately, starting with ...5 KB (787 words) - 18:59, 12 April 2010
- It is also possible to back up Windows system's disks by using SAMBA. Please read ...g the Regback utility, from the Windows NT Resource Kit. Unfortunately, it is not part of the Windows NT standard distribution, you have to purchase it s ...2 KB (284 words) - 15:25, 24 July 2010
- A posting from the amanda-users mailing-list (amanda-users@amanda.org) asked: :"What, please, is a "DLE"? May it mean: Down Loadable Entity ??? Stupid. Do Less Errors ??? S ...886 bytes (136 words) - 22:31, 19 March 2013
- So just backing up "localhost" isn't enough for you? Amanda has you covered! ...net. Oh, and the US still considered crypto software to be a "munition". Amanda's client/server authentication thus consisted of a username and some basic ...4 KB (620 words) - 18:24, 17 September 2012
- ...e used in restore operations to determine which files are available and on what tapes they are stored. The index is required for {{man|8|amrecover}}. If the index is not available, the tape can restored using {{man|8|amrestore}} or using the ...5 KB (803 words) - 08:53, 26 September 2012
- The Amanda disklist is the partner file to {{man|5|amanda.conf}} in a particular configuration. It specifies the data that should be ...238 bytes (39 words) - 14:24, 24 September 2012
- ...diate storage area for caching backup data. Specify per [[DLE]] in {{man|5|amanda.conf}}. ...rst backed-up to the holding disk, and then later spooled to media when it is available. ...695 bytes (114 words) - 08:59, 18 September 2012
- ...the integrity of the data which was backed up -- if the restore operation is successful, amverify considers the dump verified. ...t to verify that a run has been successful by performing a restore]. This is also a good way to ensure that the you know how to do a restore, so you'll ...1 KB (230 words) - 09:47, 9 October 2012
- * "How do I make Amanda do full backups on Saturday and incrementals ... ?" ...up on tuesday and now it keeps asking for the tuesday tape even though it is wednesday!" ...4 KB (670 words) - 22:12, 19 March 2013
- = Where Amanda has its sources = The reference Amanda source repository uses SVN. The base SVN URL is: ...4 KB (665 words) - 20:07, 28 July 2014
- 认证在dumptypes中配置，所以我们将为这个远程系统添加一个新的dumptype。将以下内容添加到 {{man|5|amanda.conf}}: <pre> ssh_keys "/etc/amanda/MyConfig/ssh-key" ...4 KB (245 words) - 18:24, 3 January 2011
- ...can be done in such a way that neither end of the TCP connection is on the Amanda server, removing the server as a performance bottleneck. ...hrough a TCP connection is fairly trivial. But setting up that connection is not. The process looks something like this: ...5 KB (748 words) - 02:35, 14 May 2010
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...mplemented . `tapedev' specifies the tape device to be used; `changer_dev' is the device used to talk to the kernel module (for chio, usually /dev/ch0), ...3 KB (557 words) - 02:14, 8 June 2010
- ...rt encryption and authentication. To set up an SSH authentication session, Amanda will run the equivalent of: ...guration; the Amanda configuration is described authoritatively in {{man|7|amanda-auth}}. ...5 KB (811 words) - 00:06, 19 February 2017
- ...aps more importantly, features, such as backup to Amazon S3 (introduced in Amanda 2.6). Amanda requires gnu make, and will fail if compiling with BSD make. Use gmake inst ...3 KB (507 words) - 18:28, 29 June 2010
- {{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...350 bytes (51 words) - 02:14, 8 June 2010
- When a backup image is complete, the server then adds it to the tape queue. Especially "taperalgo largestfit" is helpful fitting as much as possible on a vtape. ...1 KB (220 words) - 14:29, 29 January 2018
- ...this page and add your name as "owner", and email your thoughts to the <tt>amanda-hackers</tt> list. Other hackers will be happy to help. If you have other ...to get started on any of these projects is to [[Fork Amanda on Github|fork Amanda]] and push your completed changes back. ...4 KB (572 words) - 05:24, 11 July 2010
- ...This ensures that when ''strange'' results appear in the reports something is actually wrong and must be checked. * The paths of Amanda executables, configuration files and data differ per system/distribution/.. ...2 KB (248 words) - 16:11, 22 September 2012
- This is a developer-level description of the current Changer API. It is intended for authors of changer scripts. ...nto which it "inserts" volumes on request. For a typical tape robot, this is the natural mode. Other changers (e.g., [[chg-disk]]) emulate this behavio ...7 KB (1,128 words) - 05:33, 17 January 2010
- There are multiple ways to performs MySQL backups using Amanda. Which one you can and should use depends on your situation. ...before the Amanda backup is started. The dump file will be backed up using Amanda. ...1 KB (233 words) - 16:12, 10 January 2011
- Amanda can [[span]] dumps across multiple volumes, enabling backups of [[DLE]]s la ...s (Amanda-3.1 and earlier)]]. This sort of configuration is deprecated in Amanda-3.2, but will still work. ...5 KB (918 words) - 14:52, 3 February 2012
- So now you have a working Amanda install (right?). What's it doing? ...k'', which stores data on disk. In particular it stores that data at <tt>/amanda/vtapes</tt>, in a set of four slots" ...6 KB (976 words) - 09:35, 18 September 2012
- ...t of all, you should know that there are three ways to get at your data in Amanda: ...|8|amrecover}}, which lets you restore particular files or directories and is the most automated ...4 KB (637 words) - 18:47, 1 January 2011
- ...ilable mechanisms are tailored to the different kinds of transfer elements Amanda uses. When assembling elements into a transfer, the XFA examines the mecha In this mechanism, the downstream element is given a file descriptor from which it should read. This might be used, for ...4 KB (664 words) - 19:54, 18 January 2010
- * 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