Backup to Amazon S3

Zmanda’s mission is to ensure that our customers can always recover their data while making backup simple, secure and cost-effective. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) fits perfectly with this mission.

In addition to traditional backup to disk and tape, Amanda Enterprise can now use Amazon S3 to backup, archive and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the Internet. Amanda Enterprise customers now get access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites.

Benefits

• Streamlined offsite backup storage & recovery process
• Layered security & bandwidth optimization
• Retrieve data anytime, anywhere. Faster than restoring from offsite tape storage
• Cost effective “pay as you go”
• Easy to use & manage with Amanda Enterprise
• Only online storage service backed by Amazon’s 99.9% SLA

Tape Backup vs. Amazon S3

In comparison to traditional storing of tapes off-site for disaster recovery, the Amazon S3 provides streamlined recovery process with minimal downtime for your business.

Recovery from off-site tape	Recovery from Amazon S3
Identify location of the required tapes	Find files or directories using intuitive ZMC and click Restore
Request your off-site tape storage vendor, e.g. Iron Mountain, to deliver the tapes
Mount and read the tape until required data is found and recovered
Unload the tape and repeat with another tape if required
Total downtime for best case scenario is hours, but usually takes several days	Total downtime is a few minutes

 

Read how Amanda Enterprise Amazon S3 Storage Option is considered the leading “hybrid online backup solution” by Illuminata. Register to read the latest analyst report.

Please contact zsales@zmanda.com or call (888) 496-2632 for more information.