Amanda
Amanda is a popular network backup and archiving software that protects multiple machines running various versions of Linux, Unix, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It supports tapes, disks, optical media, and changers.
| Tags | Archiving backup |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Mac OS X Windows Windows Cygwin |
| Implementation | Perl C |
Recent releases
- 27 Jan 2009 09:53
Changes: An application API allows you to easily write wrappers around any backup program (see the 'amanda-applications' man page0. amgtar now uses GNU tar, which is a lot more configurable than the GNUTAR program. amzfs-sendrecv performs backups of a ZFS filesystem with 'zfs send'. The script API now allows you to run scripts before and after the amanda process. amzfs-snapshot takes a snapshot of a ZFS filesystem, which can then be backed up with amgtar.
- 27 Aug 2008 04:12
Changes: Various device API fixes. Fixes for compilation on various platforms. Other small fixes.
- 15 May 2008 20:10
Changes: 'amfetchdump -p', an amtapetype crash, and a planner crash have been fixed. An 'amadmin force' with strategy incronly will force a level 0 on the next run. Check has been configured to be sure it found gnutar. Other small bugs have been fixed.
- 01 Apr 2008 14:00
Changes: 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' have been replaced with the more flexible 'amcheckdump'. 'amcryptsimple' and 'amgpgcrypt', encryption plugins based on GPG, have been added. 'amserverconfig' and 'amaddclient', initial Amanda configuration tools, have been added. There are speedups in 'amrecover find' and starting amrecover. The Device API has a 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.
- 21 Jan 2008 22:20
Changes: The device API provides a pluggable interface to storage devices, supporting tapes, vtapes, RAIT, and Amazon S3. New Perl modules link directly to Amanda to support the writing of Amanda applications in Perl. A new 'local' security driver supports backups of the Amanda server without any network connection or other configuration.
