January 2007
Intermediate to advanced
760 pages
25h 14m
English
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Chapter 4. Amanda
The purpose of this chapter is to give a brief technical overview of Amanda. We want you to understand how Amanda works, how it is different from other backup software, and how it can help you solve your data protection requirements. On the other hand, we don’t want to overwhelm you with technical details that could be very specific to a particular setup or backup policy. Throughout this chapter, we provide links to the web sites where you can find up-to-date and easy to follow instructions and details about everything you need to know about deploying Amanda in production.
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This chapter was contributed by Dmitri Joukovski and Stefan G. Weichinger.[1] Dmitri has been solving backup and recovery challenges since the early ’90s and he lives in Silicon Valley, California with his beautiful wife and children. Stefan loves to work in a collaborative environment and continues his quest to find one.
Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automated Network Disk Archiver, is the most well-known open-source backup software. Amanda was initially developed at the University of Maryland in 1991 with the goal of protecting files on a large number of client workstations with a single backup server. James da Silva was one of its original developers.
The Amanda project was registered on SourceForge.net in 1999. Jean-Louis Martineau of the University of Montreal has been the gatekeeper and leader of Amanda development in recent years. Over the years more than 250 developers have contributed ...
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