The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (server) Maintained by:kuriyama@FreeBSD.org Port Added: 01 Nov 2010 14:21:43 License: not specified in port
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.
WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda/
To install the port:cd /usr/ports/misc/amanda26-server/ && make install clean To add the package:pkg_add -r amanda-server
Configuration Options
===> The following configuration options are available for amanda-server-2.6.1p2_4,1:
GNUTAR=on (default) "use GNU tar"
PLOT=off (default) "enable ploting, requires X11 libraries"
SAMBA=off (default) "enable the use of smbclient"
MTX=off (default) "enable the use of mtx changer scripts"
AESPIPE=off (default) "enable encryption. Needed by amcrypt"
S3=off (default) "enable Amazon S3 device support"
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Remove more tags from pkg-descr files fo the form:
- Name
em@i.l
or variations thereof. While I'm here also fix some whitespace and other
formatting errors, including moving WWW: to the last line in the file.
Finally upgrade amanda-{server,client} to 3.2.0. Old 2.6.x was
repocopied as amanda26-{server,client}. Please stay in 2.6.x branch
if you are conservative. Yes, you should so for important
infrastructre like as backup system :-).
New 3.2.0 port includes:
- Use misc/amanda-perl-wrapper as perl5 interpreter which is linked
with libthr.so to avoid thread problem.
- Unique UID, GID assigned and use it by default. amanda user/group
will be added automatically when not exist.
- Deprecate AMANDA_{CONFIG,TAPE} port knobs. They can be set in
runtime config easily.
References: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/3.2_features
