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Amanda, or Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is an archiving tool that is able
to back up data residing on a single server, or multiple computers on a network, to a tape or disk-
based storage system. Amanda uses native dump and GNU tar facilities and can back up a large
number of workstations and servers running various versions of Linux, UNIX, or Microsoft
Windows operating systems.
For more information, see the
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Section 6.1, "Installing Amanda Basic," on page 41
Section 6.2, "Installing Amanda Advanced," on page 42
Section 6.3, "Post-Installation," on page 43

6.1 Installing Amanda Basic

1 Click Install under Available Components.
2 Click Hard-Disk Backup (Basic), then click Next.
3 Specify your network backup configurations for Amanda.
Organization: Title of backup reports.
Mail To: A comma-separated list of recipients for e-mail reports.
Days to Backup: Select the days the backups will run.
Hours to Run: Select the hours that backups will run.
4 Specify your disk backup.
Maximum Backup Size (GB): The size of the virtual backup tapes in gigabytes. This is
the maximum amount of data that can be backed up during each cycle.
Number of Backups to Keep: This is the total number of backups to store at one time.
Path to Store Backups: The Linux path to your storage device.
5 Review the settings of the installation. To make a change, click Back. To proceed with the
installation, click Next.
Amanda documentation site (http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda-
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