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diff --git a/misc/amanda-server/pkg-descr b/misc/amanda-server/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..30ad76ed323 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/amanda-server/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +** CAUTION ** + +THE RELEASE OF AMANDA 2.4 BREAKS BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY WITH +EARLIER AMANDA CLIENTS (PER CHANGES FILE IN THE DISTRIBUTION.) + +WHAT IS AMANDA? +--------------- + +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 +jeh@FreeBSD.org |