amanda-client

Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (client)

WHAT IS AMANDA? --------------- This is a release of Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver. Amanda is a backup system designed to archive many computers on a network to a single large-capacity tape drive. Here are some features of Amanda: * written in C, freely distributable. * built on top of standard backup software: Unix dump/restore, and later GNU Tar and others. * 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. * does simple tape management: will not overwrite the wrong tape.