Amanda stands for “The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver”
It is a very powerful backup system, formerly only used with tapes and tape drives (see http://www.amanda.org/). Now that disk space on external drives is very cheap, you can affordably use an external USB drive for backup and recovery. All you have to do is:
- Get amanda
- Fake a tapechanger
- Ajust your amanda.conf
- Create a disklist
- Edit your crontab