Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group
Backups with amanda 2.5.xx
October Meeting: Backups with amanda 2.5.xx
Date: October 2, 2007 at
7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117
Backups with amanda 2.5.xx
Speaker: Michael RichardsonThe Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (amanda) has been around for a long time. It has great features, and until recently, had major limitations that have caused multiple other projects to be created to solve those. Unfortunately, it has sometimes been the case that the baby was thrown out with the bathwater, and few other systems come up to the sophistication of Amanda. The Amanda system is not for everyone --- historically it wasn't very useful for smaller installations, or for single hosts. New features in version 2.5 change the landscape a bit. This talk deals with Amanda as it historically was, and what the new features in version 2.5 are, and how to best exploit them.
Michael Richardson has been running Amanda on NetBSD and Linux systems for 9 years, and has had to restore from tape archives for various reasons five times in that period.
About the Speaker
Michael Richardson has been involved with network security systems since 1988. Michael was a founding employee at Milkyway Networks in 1994, and Solidum Systems Corporation in 1998. While at Milkyway Networks, Michael was responsible for developing the VPN components of the BlackHole firewall, the policy engine, and all kernel components. Solidum designed and sold hardware - - IPsec being an important target. Michael is a system software designer and protocol designer. Michael is involved on a daily basis with at the IETF. He is an author on RFC3586, RFC4025 and RFC4332.
Michael was has architected a number of IPsec systems, including closed source systems at SSH, work on KAME code on BSD, and work on the Linux FreeS/WAN project.
Michael is now a principle at Xelerance Corporation, the open source security specialists, current maintainers of the Openswan IPsec stack.
Michael received a B.Sc. Physics from Carleton University.
Finding the Meeting Location
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Algonquin+College-Woodroffe,+Canadahttp://www.algonquincollege.com/main/yourAlgonquinTab/directions/woodroffeMap.htm
Algonquin College is close to the corner of Woodroffe and Baseline and right across from the Baseline transitway station. Room T117 is in Building T. Free parking is available in lots 8, 9 and 12 after 5pm.
