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35 lines
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AMANDA: Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver.
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AMANDA is a backup system designed to archive many computers on a
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network to a single large-capacity tape drive. It is built on top of
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standard backup software: Unix dump/restore, GNU Tar and others, so it
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is possible to restore from a backup tape even if AMANDA is not
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installed.
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AMANDA requires a host that is mostly idle during the time backups are
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done, with a large capacity tape drive (e.g. an EXABYTE, DAT or DLT
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tape). This becomes the "tape server host". All the computers you are
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going to dump are the "backup client hosts". The server host can also
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be a client host.
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Other features include:
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* does simple tape management: will not overwrite the wrong tape.
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* supports tape changers via a generic interface. Easily
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customizable to any type of tape carousel, robot, or stacker that
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can be controlled via the UNIX command line.
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* supports Kerberos 4 security, including encrypted dumps.
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* supports GPG encrypted archives.
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* for a restore, tells you what tapes you need, and finds the proper
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backup image on the tape for you.
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* recovers gracefully from errors, including down or hung machines.
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* reports results, including all errors in detail, in email.
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* will dynamically adjust backup schedule to keep within constraints:
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no more juggling by hand when adding disks and computers to
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network.
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* includes a pre-run checker program, that conducts sanity checks on
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both the tape server host and all the client hosts (in parallel),
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and will send an e-mail report of any problems that could cause the
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backups to fail.
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* can compress dumps before sending or after sending over the net,
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with either compress or gzip.
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