* Amanda backup system

Amanda is an automated system for backing up and recovering disk and file systems, that have been developed by the Univerity of Maryland.

Amanda can be installed on multiple platforms, it runs over a network, so a single amanda server can backup multiple workstations, and taking advantage of Samba, it can be used to backup disks over a Microsoft network.

Amanda runs along a cycle, after which the backup tapes are reused. It can perform two types of backup:

Backup policy, as implemented at CSIM is as follow:

Note: limitation on the backup for Microsoft stations makes it necessary that an agreement is obtained among the many users of a shared machine. Back up will never work properly if one user decide to bak up one directory one day and another user change it to another directory another day. A good way to proceed would be to define a common directory called C:\users\ and to put individual files in sub-directories. C:\users\ should them become the share to backup.

Note: backup will only be performed if the computers are running at the time of the backing up.

* Backup of Unix server

This will be done on a case by case. Obviously, you must install Amanda client on the Unix system you intend to backup.