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| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR b/sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR index 4f447837124..7ca3b0b47a0 100644 --- a/sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR +++ b/sysutils/amanda-common/DESCR @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -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. +AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a +backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single +master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity +tape or disk drive. Amanda uses native tools (such as GNUtar, dump) for +backup and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple +versions of Unix/Mac OS X/Linux/Windows. |