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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, or to disk. | 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, or to disk. | ||
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 | 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 use [http://www.samba.org Samba] to back up the data from Microsoft Windows hosts. | ||
Revision as of 19:40, 30 May 2007
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, or to disk.
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 use Samba to back up the data from Microsoft Windows hosts.