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authormjl <mjl@pkgsrc.org>2004-11-12 12:13:44 +0000
committermjl <mjl@pkgsrc.org>2004-11-12 12:13:44 +0000
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Update amanda to 2.4.4p4
Bug fix release and minor improvements: new chg-iomega changer script. amanda will not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file. amflush.c: Don't start a driver if nothing to flush. amadmin.c: Call check_dumpuser() as soon as posible. amadmin.c: Don't core dump if DUMPCYLE is too big. dumper.c: Parse warning message.
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-This is 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, 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.
- * 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.
- * supports Kerberos 4 security, including encrypted dumps. The Kerberos
- support is available as a separate add-on package, see the file
- KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET on the ftp site, and the file docs/KERBEROS in this
- package, for more details.
- * 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.
- * 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.
+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.