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** CAUTION **
THE RELEASE OF AMANDA 2.4 BREAKS BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY WITH
EARLIER AMANDA CLIENTS (PER CHANGES FILE IN THE DISTRIBUTION.)
WHAT IS AMANDA?
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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.
Here are some features of Amanda:
* written in C, freely distributable.
* built on top of standard backup software: Unix dump/restore, and
later 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.