User documentation

Tutorial

• Getting Started with Amanda
• Installation
  • Amanda's Requirements
  • OS Specific Notes
• Upgrading - see amanda-compatibility(7)
• OS- and application-specific information

Reference

• 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
  • Amanda-3.3 man pages
  • Amanda-3.1 man pages
  • Amanda-2.6.1 man pages
  • Amanda-2.6.0 man pages
• Deprecated Pages: old documentation
• Tapetype definitions: your tape drive is probably here!
• Glossary

Other Articles

• Version compatibility: compatibility between Amanda versions
• GNU Tar compatibility matrix
• Script API
• Zmanda Windows Client

Concepts

• Index files
• curinfo database
• Log files
• Encryption
• Changers
• Exclude and include lists
• Quoting
• Parallel Writes to Tape
• Recovery Limits
• Meta label

Community Resources

Getting Help

• amanda-users mailing list
  • mailing-list archive
  • you are most likely to see your question answered here
  • all bug reporting and tracking is done through this list
• IRC: #amanda on freenode
• Zmanda forum

Platform-Specific Support

The Amanda community maintains a group of Platform Experts who are familiar with using Amanda on specific platforms. Experts monitor the amanda-users mailing list, and will help you with questions relating to their area of expertise.

• Platform Experts

Other Links

• Useful Amanda Tools
• official Amanda website
• sourceforge project page (barely used anymore)