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Amanda is the world's most popular Open Source Backup and Archiving software. Amanda allows System Administrators to set up a single backup server to back up multiple hosts to a tape- or disk- or cloud-based storage system. Amanda uses native archival tools and can back up a large number of workstations and servers running various versions of Linux, Unix (including OpenSolaris), Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems (Native Windows client and Samba).

Amanda Releases

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3.5 features - 3.5.1 released on December 01, 2017
3.4 features - 3.4.5 released on June 8, 2017
3.3 features - 3.3.9 released on February 10, 2016
3.2 features - 3.2.3 released on May 9, 2011
3.1 features - 3.1.3 released on October 5, 2010
- 3.1.2 security alert - details
2.6.1 features - 2.6.1p2 released on Nov 6, 2009
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Documentation

User documentation
- Getting Started with Amanda
- Troubleshooting: solutions to common problems
- FAQ: frequently asked questions
- How Tos: instructions for various common tasks
- Man pages: the most up-to-date manual pages
- Pod pages: the most up-to-date perl POD pages
- Glossary
Developer documentation

Amanda Publications, White Papers, and Presentations

Amanda in 2012 Coverity report
Amanda and Lustre PDF
Amanda presentation at CALUG, August 2008 PDF
Perl in the Amanda Core
Effective Amazon EC2 Backup Strategy
Advantages of Amanda over Proprietary Backup - Requires free registration
Improving Amanda server performance - Requires free registration
Amanda presentation at LISA '09 PDF
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