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| Stable release | 3.5.41 
/ 25 August 2023 |
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| Type | Tape backup software |
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| Website | amanda |
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The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Amanda) is an open source computer archiving tool that is able to back up data residing on multiple computers on a network. It uses a client–server model, where the server contacts each client to perform a backup at a scheduled time.3: 125-147
Amanda was initially developed at the University of Maryland and is released under a BSD-style license.2 Amanda is available both as a free community edition and fully supported enterprise edition. Amanda runs on almost any Unix or Unix-like systems. Amanda supports Windows systems using Samba or a native Win32 client with support for open files.4
Amanda supports both tape-based and disk-based backup, and provides some useful functionality not available in other backup products. Amanda supports tape-spanning i.e. if a backup set does not fit in one tape, it will be split into multiple tapes.
References
References
- "Download Amanda".
- Martineau, Jean-Louis (25 August 2017). "zmanda/amanda/AUTHORS". Public. GitHub. Amanda. Archived from the original on 16 December 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- Joukovski, Dmitri; Weichinge, Stefan G. (23 January 2007). "4. Amanda". In Preston, W. Curtis (ed.). Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems. O'Reilly Media. p. 125-147. ISBN 978-0596102463. LCCN 2007273944. OCLC 123539755. OL 7581383M – via Internet Archive.
- "Zmanda Windows Client". Zmanda. 1 September 2016. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2022.