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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 UNIX. Amanda can also | 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]. | ||
Revision as of 15:32, 24 July 2010
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 back up the data from Microsoft Windows hosts using either the native Zmanda Windows Client or Samba.