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The 15-Minute Backup Solution
Secure Network Backups in a Heterogeneous Environment in the Time it Takes to Have Pizza Delivered (All Using Open Source Software!)
This setup below was performed using Amanda 2.5.1p2. To learn how to set up:
- the latest version of Amanda 3.x with new configuration tools
- the new Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) based ZmandaWindows Client Community Edition
Please register on Zmanda Network and read Setting-Up an Open Source Backup Software Amanda Community in About 15 Minutes white paper available in the Resources section.
Today’s businesses rarely run on just one operating system. Linux users and administrators often have strong preferences for one distribution over another; web designers might lean towards theMac; legacy software and hardware can include various UNIX operating systems. Despite the complexity of modern business computing environments, a system administrator is expected to find a reliable backup solution.
Even in the case where users are expected to keep important files on networked resources, for true intellectual data security, desktop machines and laptops will also be backed up. Theprice of hard disk storage is continuously falling, bringing terabytes of storage within reach, and increasing the amount of data that can potentially be lost. (The amount of data that you have will always expand to fit the storage available; as the golden rule states.) We live in a global and e-commerce economy, where businesses run around the clock and crucial business data changescommensurately.
The Challenge
For our 15-minute challenge, you will backup two Linux systems (each running a different Linux distribution) and one Windows system, using freely downloadable open source software.

Our scenario is as follows:
The user "pavel" works with sensitive information. We need to make an encrypted backup of his home directory,/home/pavel, which resides on a Fedora Core Linux systemcalled Iron. Our webmaster needs the webserver's document home backed up, the /var/www/html directory on a SUSE Enterprise Linux system called Copper. Our manager works solely on a Windows XP system called Uranium, and keeps all of his work in the MyDocumentsfolder, so we will need to add //Uranium/MyDocuments to our backup configuration.
The Solution: Amanda
Amanda is open source backupsoftware that is flexible, secure and scalable to dynamic computing environments. Amanda can save you from expensive proprietary backup software and those custom backup scripts that have a propensity to break at the worst times. Dating back to 1991, Amanda has been used successfuly in environments from one standalone machine to hundreds of clients. Amanda is so thoroughly documented, from communitywikis to published system administration texts, that it might be hard to discern just how easy an Amanda backup can be.
This article will show you how, in about 15 minutes, you can:
1. Install and configure the Amanda backup server.
2. Prepare three different clients for backup.
3. Set backup parameters.
4. Verify the configuration.
5. Verify the backup.

We will install and configure Amandabackup server software on Quartz, which is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We will install and configure Amanda backup client software on Copper and on Iron. The Windows XP client, Uranium, will be backed up with Amanda server software running in conjunction with Samba on the backup server, Quartz.
Client | Filesystem | OS | Compression | Encryption |
Copper | /var/www/html | SLES9 | Yes |No |
Iron | /home/pavel | FC4 | Yes | Yes |
Uranium | //uranium/MyDocuments* | WINXP | Yes | No |
* using Samba (i.e. without installing any software on the Windows system) |

Amanda gives you the capability to use disk storage as backup media. Configuring, initiating and verifying a backup will complete the backup cycle, all in less than the time it takes for a pizza to be delivered!...