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** CAUTION **
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THIS BETA RELEASE OF AMANDA 2.4 BREAKS BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY WITH
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EARLIER AMANDA CLIENTS (PER CHANGES FILE IN THE DISTRIBUTION.)
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WHAT IS AMANDA?
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This is a release of Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic
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Network Disk Archiver. Amanda is a backup system designed to archive many
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computers on a network to a single large-capacity tape drive.
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Here are some features of Amanda:
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* written in C, freely distributable.
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* built on top of standard backup software: Unix dump/restore, and
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later GNU Tar and others.
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* will back up multiple machines in parallel to a holding disk, blasting
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finished dumps one by one to tape as fast as we can write files to
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tape. For example, a ~2 Gb 8mm tape on a ~240K/s interface to a host
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with a large holding disk can be filled by Amanda in under 4 hours.
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* does simple tape management: will not overwrite the wrong tape.
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