Backup

Amanda Community Edition is a free and stable version of the world's most popular open source backup and recovery software Amanda. Linux, Solaris, Windows and Source packages are available. Amanda 2.6.0p2 is the Latest Stable Release. Amanda 2.6.1 beta release is also available.
- backup_server package should be installed on the Amanda backup server. The package contains the Amanda server and client.
- backup_client package should be installed on the Amanda client (computer that is backed up by Amanda server). It contains only the Amanda client.

Simple Local Copies

The simplest form of backup is to make simple copies of your files and directories. You might make those copies to local disk, to removable disk, to tape, or to some other media. Some file copy programs will properly duplicate modification and access times, and copy owner and protection information, if you are the superuser or if the files belong to you. They seldom recreate links, however. Examples include:

cp
The standard command for copying individual files. Some versions support a -R or -r option to copy an entire directory tree.

dd
This command can be used to copy a whole disk partition at one time by specifying the names of partition device files as arguments. This process should be done with great care if the source partition is mounted: in such a case, the device should be for the block version of the disk rather than the character version. Never copy onto a mounted partition—unless you want to destroy the partition and cause an abrupt system halt!

How to recover individual files
How to recover entire directories or filesystems
How to recover each type of database (or application with special handling requirements) in the backup environment
How to recover backups without the use of file indices if the backup software (and situation) supports it
How to recover from backup duplicates or media duplicates if supported by the backup software in use
How to re-index backups for file-browse recovery or in the event of backup software database corruption
How to recover the backup system, its configuration, and associated databases

Does the Backup policies and procedures cover following minimum requirements
- The Servers to be backed up.
- Location of mission critical files.
- The files/folders to be backed up for users.
- Schedule of back up.
- Backup operators and their rights.
- Key backup procedures (If key based encryption or authentication are used).