The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Amanda) is an open source
computer
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archiving tool that is able to back up data residing on multiple computers on a
network
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Mathematics
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. It uses a
client–server model
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, where the server contacts each client to perform a backup at a scheduled time.
Amanda was initially developed at the
University of Maryland
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and is released under a
BSD-style license
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. Amanda is available both as a free community edition and fully supported enterprise edition. Amanda runs on almost any
Unix
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or
Unix-like
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systems. Amanda supports Windows systems using
Samba
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or a native Win32 client with support for open files.
Amanda supports both tape-based and disk-based backup, and provides some useful functionality not available in other backup products. Amanda supports tape-spanning ''i.e.'' if a backup set does not fit in one tape, it will be split into multiple tapes.
Enterprise edition
A commercial version of Amanda was developed by the company
Zmanda. It includes a management
graphical user interface
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(GUI) and other features such as scheduler, plugin framework, and an optional
cloud backup service support. The cloud backup option uses the
Amazon S3
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service from
Amazon Web Services
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as the cloud storage provider and enables safe offsite storage of the Amanda backup data. The plugin framework allows for application-specific backups and is used by Amanda Enterprise to support applications such as
Oracle database
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It is a database commonly used for ru ...
, Samba
network share
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It is a device or piece of information on a computer that can be remotely accessed from another comput ...
, NDMP, etc. Amanda Enterprise also supports image-level backup of live
virtual machine
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running on VMware infrastructure.
See also
*
Bacula
Bacula is an open-source, enterprise-level computer backup system for heterogeneous networks. It is designed to automate backup tasks that had often required intervention from a systems administrator or computer operator.
Bacula supports Linu ...
*
Proxmox Backup Server
References
External links
* {{official website
Free backup software
Storage software
University of Maryland, College Park research projects