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...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 ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...a-cla.html Zmanda Contributor License Agreement] first. No part of Amanda is covered by the GPLv3. ...

...ps while the network usage is at or above the given threshold. The default is 80000 Kbps. ...

...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 ...

...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. ...

...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 ...

{{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 ...

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. ...

...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. ...

...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 ...

Amanda can write to multiple volumes in parallel, saving a lot of time. * A different dle is sent to each volume. ...

...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_ ...

...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. ...

...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. ...

...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 ...

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. ...

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]]. ...

...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: ...

{{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 ...

...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}}) ...

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 ...

...ns of Gnutar play well with amanda. See [[FAQ:What versions of GNU Tar are Amanda-compatible?]]. ...

...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 ...

* [[Getting Started with Amanda]] ** [[Installation/Amanda's Requirements|Amanda's Requirements]] ...

...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? ...

{{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. ...

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. ...

...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 ...

...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. ...

...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 ...

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: ...

...’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. ...

...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. ...

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"). ...

...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. ...

...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. ...

...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 ...

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. ...

...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 ...

...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] ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...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: ...

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... ...

== Amanda wins 2009 Linux Journal Reader's Choice award == == Amanda Wordle == ...

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 ...

...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 ...

...' 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 ...