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Amanda is a backup system designed to archive many computers on a network to a single large-capacity tape drive. This package is suitable for large amounts of data to backup. For smaller solutions take a look at afbackup, tob, ...
Features:
* will back up multiple machines in parallel to a holding disk, blasting
finished dumps one by one to tape as fast as we can write files to
tape. For example, a ~2 Gb 8mm tape on a ~240K/s interface to a host
with a large holding disk can be filled by Amanda in under 4 hours.
* built on top of standard backup software: Unix dump/restore, and
later GNU Tar and others.
* does simple tape management: will not overwrite the wrong tape.
* supports tape changers via a generic interface. Easily customizable
to any type of tape carousel, robot, or stacker that can be controlled
via the unix command line.
* for a restore, tells you what tapes you need, and finds the proper
backup image on the tape for you.
* recovers gracefully from errors, including down or hung machines.
* reports results, including all errors in detail, in email to operators.
* will dynamically adjust backup schedule to keep within constraints:
no more juggling by hand when adding disks and computers to network.
* includes a pre-run checker program, that conducts sanity checks on both
the tape server host and all the client hosts (in parallel), and will
send an e-mail report of any problems that could cause the backups to
fail.
* can compress dumps before sending or after sending over the net, with
either compress or gzip.
* can optionally synchronize with external backups, for those large
timesharing computers where you want to do full dumps when the system
is down in single-user mode (since BSD dump is not reliable on active
filesystems): Amanda will still do your daily dumps.
* lots of other options; Amanda is very configurable.
For important notes, see /usr/share/doc/amanda-server/README.Debian.
Explanation of suggested programs:
- perl is needed for some non essential server utilities - gnuplot is needed for plotting statistics of backups - to backup the tape server, you need to install the client too
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| Architecture | Package Size | Installed Size | Files |
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| amd64 | 434.0 kB | 1348 kB | [list of files] |
| armel | 437.6 kB | 1284 kB | [list of files] |
| hppa | 451.7 kB | 1332 kB | [list of files] |
| i386 | 426.3 kB | 1296 kB | [list of files] |
| ia64 | 551.8 kB | 1928 kB | [list of files] |
| mips | 426.1 kB | 1416 kB | [list of files] |
| mipsel | 426.5 kB | 1416 kB | [list of files] |
| powerpc | 472.4 kB | 1424 kB | [list of files] |
| s390 | 443.7 kB | 1328 kB | [list of files] |
| sparc | 430.9 kB | 1292 kB | [list of files] |