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The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver

Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 University of Maryland at College Park, All Rights Reserved.
Portions copyrighted by individual contributers, see the distribution for details.

What is Amanda?

AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Amanda uses Samba or Cygwin to back up Microsoft Windows desktops and servers.

The most recent stable release is version 2.6.0, released on April 1, 2008. Download here!

Amanda documentation is available at the Amanda wiki or here!.

Amanda users survey: Many thanks to all of you who participated in the Amanda users survey. Results of the survey are available at Amanda Wiki.

Recent changes :

  • configure --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules require shared libraries.  Use configure --with-static-binaries to build statically linked binaries.
  • New --enable-kitche-sink flag: calls the plumber when you kitchen sink is backed up.
  • 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the
  • new, more flexible 'amcheckdump'
  • 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated.
  • Some Amanda files are now installed in new "amanda/" subdirectories: libraries are now installed in $libdir/amanda and internal programs are now installed in $libexecdir/amanda. If you mix 2.6.0 and earlier version with rsh/ssh auth, you need to add an 'amandad_path' to the dumptype and to amanda-client.conf.
  • The amandates file, previously at /etc/amandates, is now at $localstatedir/amanda/amandates.  You may want to move your existing /etc/amandates when you upgrade Amanda.
  • New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg.
  • New amenigma - WWII enigma machine encryption.  Super duper secure.
  • New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration tools these tools make assumptions, please see man page.
  • Many bugs fixed and code rewrite/cleanup
    • Speedup in 'amrecover find' and starting amrecover.
  • glib is required to compile and run amanda.
  • Device API: pluggable interface to storage devices, supporting tapes, vtapes, RAIT, and Amazon S3
  • New perl modules link directly to Amanda, to support writing Amanda applications in Perl. Perl module are installed by default in the perl installsitelib directory. It can be changed with 'configure --with-amperldir'.    * New 'local' security driver supports backups of the amanda server without any network connection or other configuration.
  • Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'.
  • Amanda configuration file changes
    • amanda.conf changes
      • flush-threshold-dumped
      • flush-threshold-scheduled
      •  taperflush
      •  device_property
      •  usetimestamps default to yes

SOME AMANDA-RELATED WEB PAGES

  • Amanda wiki
  • UNIX Backup & Recovery, a book by W. Curtis Preston with a whole chapter about Amanda, written by John R. Jackson, a member of the AMANDA development team. W. Curtis Preston has kindly put the chapter online.

    This chapter is part of the Amanda documentation and Amanda wiki.

    Last updated: $Date: 2007/06/06 23:35:55 $