** 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.
WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda/
- Jim
jim@thehousleys.net
Add a WITHOUT_GNUTAR option in preperation of the MFC of a newer version of
tar. The GNUTar is know to work in some specific conditions the previous
native version did not. This allows an easy way for those that don't need tar
with Amanda or want to try the new version an easy way to do so.
