Amanda

What is Amanda?

Amanda is the most popular open source backup and recovery software in the world. Amanda protects over one million servers and desktops running multiple versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS-X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems worldwide

Top Reasons for Amanda's Broad Adoption

• Amanda simplifies the life of a system administrator who easily configures a single server to back up multiple networked clients to a tape-or-disk-based storage system.
• Amanda provides the unique ability to write backups to tape and disk simultaneously. The same data is available online for quick, off-site and off-site restores for disaster recovery and long-term retention.
• Because Amanda does not use proprietary device drivers, any device supported by an operating system works well with Amanda. The system administrator doesn't bother to break support for a device when you update Amanda.
• Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar utilities. As there are no proprietary formats, in case of emergency, the data is recovered with native utilities, regardless of whether Amanda is still installed or not.
• Amanda is very safe. Client encryption ensures security of data in transit, and encryption on the backup server ensures the security of data at rest, e.g. on a tape or in a cloud. Amanda supports up to 4096-bit keys with public key encryption as well as 256-bit AES encryption.
• A unique scheduler optimizes the backup level for different clients so that the total backup time is virtually the same for each backup run. Amanda frees system administrators from the need to guess the rate of data change in their environments.

System requirements

256 MB available memory

500 MB memory on hard drive

Windows

Linux

Solaris