What is Amanda?

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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 GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions can also use Samba to back up Microsoft Windows hosts.

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 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 Samba to take back up from Microsoft Windows hosts.

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