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author | mjl <mjl@pkgsrc.org> | 2004-11-12 12:13:44 +0000 |
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committer | mjl <mjl@pkgsrc.org> | 2004-11-12 12:13:44 +0000 |
commit | 834bb01177eadc51b02f3f931f83c01d8b4cbbfd (patch) | |
tree | d1f225724e77f6dc963c4d3de1ea6f57cc98e737 /sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR | |
parent | 579916c06bf3b14d589bf41405c321f846658790 (diff) | |
download | pkgsrc-834bb01177eadc51b02f3f931f83c01d8b4cbbfd.tar.gz |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR')
-rw-r--r-- | sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR | 42 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 38 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR b/sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR index 3b05399fba2..5ead5bbac60 100644 --- a/sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR +++ b/sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR @@ -1,38 +1,4 @@ -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. |