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AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive. AMANDA uses native dump and/or [http://directory.fsf.org/tar.html GNU tar] facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions can also use [http://www.samba.org Samba] to back up Microsoft Windows hosts.
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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 backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive, tape changer, disk, or cloud.


The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (AMANDA) is a backup system that allows a LAN administrator, to set up a master backup server for taking back up of multiple hosts on a single large capacity tape drive. AMANDA uses native dump and/or [http://directory.fsf.org/tar.html GNU tar] facilities for taking back up of a large number of workstations, which are running on multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions of AMANDA can also use [http://www.samba.org Samba] to take back up from Microsoft Windows hosts.
Amanda uses native dump and/or [http://directory.fsf.org/tar.html GNU tar] facilities and can 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 native [[Zmanda Windows Client]] or [http://www.samba.org Samba].

Latest revision as of 23:39, 1 January 2011

Deprecated
see GSWA

Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the LAN administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive, tape changer, disk, or cloud.

Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can 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 native Zmanda Windows Client or Samba.