Project: Amanda Enterprise 4.0

Verifying Amanda Enterprise System and Environmental Requirements       

Almost all failed installations or problems with backups fall into two categories: 

The Amanda Enterprise server or one of its clients does not meet the system requirements which include package dependencies. 

The Amanda Enterprise defaults do not match the local configuration, meaning one or both must be changed. 

To avoid these problems, read the Amanda Enterprise 4.0 system requirements. 

Installing the Correct Amanda Enterprise Components and Licenses       

If you intend to run the Amanda Enterprise backup server (referred to as the Amanda server) on the same machine as the file systems being backed up, this is simple: just choose the appropriate binary distribution from the Zmanda network downloads page, install 4.0 using the Installer *run file, then download and install the license key. If you intend to run an Amanda server to back up one or more remote hosts, multiple installations on the remote hosts are required. 

These procedures are detailed in Downloading and Installing Amanda Enterprise Components. 

Amanda Enteprise 4.0 is a backup solution designed to help IT teams create flexible, yet scalable backup policies for their IT environments. It brings new enhancements to security, data deduplication, centralized multi-site cluster management, Azure storage support, and AWS Glacier storage with archival rules. 

This document contains a high-level overview of Amanda Enteprise 4.0, its enhanced features, upgrades, new operating systems and it's background operations and processes. 

Amanda Enterprise 4.0 Documentation       

Comprehensive and detailed manuals cover both the GUI console (called the Zmanda Console Manager or ZMC) and command line interfaces to Amanda Enterprise. The man pages are also installed along with the Amanda server. 

Amanda Enterprise 4.0 Release Notes  

Zmanda Management Console Users Manual  

Zmanda Backup Appliance  

Zmanda Linux Client  

Zmanda Mac OS X Client  

Zmanda Windows Client  

Zmanda Solaris Client  

Zmanda Application Agents  

Backing Up and Restoring Oracle Servers (Linux)  

Backing Up and Restoring PostgreSQL Servers  

Backing Up and Restoring Oracle Servers (Windows)  

Backing Up and Restoring Microsoft Exchange  

Backing Up and Restoring Microsoft SQL Servers   

Backing Up and Restoring Microsoft Sharepoint Servers  

Backing Up and Restoring Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machines  

Backing Up and Restoring Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) Shares  

Backing Up and Restoring VMware Vsphere and ESX  

Backup Up and Restoring NDMP appliances  

Vaulting - Copies of backup media  

Amanda Enterprise Man Pages  

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Accessibility 

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