amanda: amanda (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) amanda: amanda: AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, amanda: is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set amanda: up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a amanda: single large capacity tape drive. AMANDA uses native dump amanda: and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of amanda: workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions amanda: can also use SAMBA to back up Microsoft Windows hosts. amanda: amanda: Homepage: http://www.amanda.org/