November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
22h 46m
English
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AMANDA
AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automated Network Disk Archiver, is a public domain utility developed at the University of Maryland. It is as advanced as a free backup utility gets and has quite a large user community. With an installed base of at least 1500 sites, AMANDA is easily the most popular free backup utility of its type; therefore I am covering AMANDA in detail.
AMANDA allows you to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single backup drive. (It also works with a number of stackers.) AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNU tar, and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions also can use SAMBA, described later in this chapter, to back up Microsoft Windows (95/98/NT/2000)-based hosts. AMANDA is freely available software maintained by the AMANDA Users Group. More information about AMANDA can be found at http://www.amanda.org.
Tip
This section was written by John R. Jackson with input from Alexandre Oliva. John has done system administration and operating systems and application development for more than 20 years on everything from peripheral processors to supercomputers. He currently works for the Purdue University Computing Center. Alexandre is a PhD student in computer science at the Institute of Computing of the State University of Campinas, Brazil, where he used to work as a system administrator and started to use and develop Amanda. John and Alexandre are members of the Amanda Core Development ...
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