Amanda
What is Amanda ?
Amanda (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.
Amanda is free software and can be used professionally without license fees. This results in a reasonable cost-reduction compared to commercial backup-software-suites.
What is the relation to oops! ?
Since february 2004 oops! founder Stefan G. Weichinger is member of the amanda-core-team.
This provides direct contact to the main developers and the possibility to contribute to the development of Amanda.
Stefan G. Weichinger has put much effort into the conversion of the amanda-related documentation into Docbook/XML.
For details, see The official documentation of Amanda
Co-authorship “Backup & Recovery”
The legendary Amanda-chapter by John R. Jackson, is part of the book “UNIX Backup and Recovery” by W. Curtis Preston. This book still is one of the references when it comes to backups.
Read it online here:
Using Amanda
Stefan G. Weichinger and Dmitri Joukovski from Zmanda have written a completely updated chapter about Amanda, it is part of the second edition of the book, now called “Backup and Recovery”.
Get your copy:
“Backup and Recovery” by W. Curtis Preston
O’Reilly Media, Dec. 2006
ISBN-10: 059610246, ISBN-13: 978-0596102463
Support for Amanda
oops! provides worldwide online support for Amanda and is also officially registered as commercial support:
