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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 network
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to a single large-capacity tape drive. It is built on top of standard
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backup software: Unix dump/restore, GNU Tar and others, so it possible to
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restore from a backup tape even if Amanda is not 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 tape).
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This becomes the "tape server host". All the computers you are going to dump
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are the "backup client hosts". The server host can also 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 customizable to
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any type of tape carousel, robot, or stacker that can be controlled via
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the unix command line.
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* supports Kerberos 4 security, including encrypted dumps.
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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: no
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more juggling by hand when adding disks and computers to network.
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* includes a pre-run checker program, that conducts sanity checks on both
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the tape server host and all the client hosts (in parallel), and will
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send an e-mail report of any problems that could cause the backups to
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fail.
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* can compress dumps before sending or after sending over the net, with
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either compress or gzip.
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WWW: ${HOMEPAGE}
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