The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
AMANDA features

  • Free software; distributed in source and pkges (deb, rpm); easy to install

  • Operates on its own TCP and UDP ports and runs through inetd 
      amanda          10080/udp     # operations on clients 
amandaidx       10082/tcp     # access to catalogs on the server
amidxtape       10083/tcp     # access to tape device on the server
  • Can backup Windows shares through smbclient

  • Uses dump/ufsdump and GNU-tar

  • Can utilize multiple tape drives and backup multiple servers at the same time

  • Backup operations are scheduled through cron

  • Can provide software compression on either server or client sides

  • Automatically computes dump levels

  • Does a tape management (labels tapes and protecs from overwriting)

  • Can use more than one tape in a single run, but does not split a dump image across tapes

  • E-mail reports and notifications

  • Starting from v-2.4.4, Amanda is able to perform backups on hard drives, treating them as virtual tapes

  • Command line operations only (no GUI)

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