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Using Amanda
The Amanda section of Unix Backup and Recovery was written by John R. Jackson with input from Alexandre Oliva.  John has done system administration, operating systems and application development for over 20 years on everything from peripheral processors to supercomputers.  He currently works for the Purdue University Computing Center.  Alexandre is a PhD student in Computer Science at the Institute of Computing of the State University of Campinas, Brazil, where he used to work as a system administrator and started to use and develop Amanda.  John and Alexandre are members of the Amanda Development Team, and may be reached at jrj@purdue.edu and oliva@dcc.unicamp.br.  More information about AMANDA can be found at http://www.amanda.org.

We have split the sections of this on-line version of the AMANDA chapter into multiple files to make them quicker to download and easier to digest.  The table of contents below should take you right where you need to go.  Splitting the files up like this will also help make your searches a little more powerful, taking you right to the section containing the phrase(s) you're looking for.

 
An Introduction
AMANDA Features
Future Capabilities of AMANDA
AMANDA Resources
Installing AMANDA
Install Related Packages
Perform Preliminary Setup
Configure the AMANDA Build
Build and Install AMANDA
Configuring AMANDA
Decide on a Tape Server
Decide Which Tape Devices to Use
Decide Whether to Use Compression
Decide Where the Holding Space Will Be
Compute Your Dump Cycle
Copy and Edit the Default Configuration File
Configure the Holding Disk
Configure Tape Devices and Label Tapes
Configure Backup Clients
Test and Debug Setup
Operating AMANDA
Run amdump
Read AMANDA's Reports
Monitor Tape and Holding Disk Status
Adding Tapes at a Particular Position in the Cycle
Miscellanous Operational Notes
Advanced AMANDA Configuration
Adjust the Backup Cycle
Adjust Parallelism
Monitor for Possible Improvements
Excluding Files
Restoring with AMANDA
Configuring and Using amrecover

Restoring Without AMANDA

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