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"Zmanda has taken a leadership role in enhancing Amanda, while fully subscribing to the open-source development methodology and by providing collaborative tools like Wiki and Forum. Zmanda engineering provided tremendous help in releasing Amanda 2.5, a major milestone for the Amanda project that provides significant enhancements in security and scalability."
Jean-Louis Martineau,
Current Amanda community lead developer and project gatekeeper.

Community Overview

In October of 2006 we asked Amanda community to answer a few questions
about their usage of Amanda. Please review here the Results of Amanda Users Survey.

Zmanda is committed to providing leadership and resources to the open source Community to develop and enhance data protection software projects. Our vision is to create open source- and open standards-based data backup and recovery solutions. We believe open source development leads to end user centric, secure and high quality software.

Over the last year we have significantly contributed to the success of the open source Amanda project. Since 1991 the Amanda community has released several versions of the highly scalable network backup and recovery software that protects hundreds of thousands of Linux, UNIX, and Windows servers all over the world. We have accelerated the momentum of Amanda development, resulting in the 2.5.0 and 2.5.1 releases of Amanda. We are also providing resources to the Community in the form of hardware, collaboration tools and sponsorships for key developers. In the coming months, you will continue to see significant contributions to the Amanda project coming from Zmanda.

Recently we released Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL, the first comprehensive backup and recovery solution specifically designed for MySQL DBAs. As a matter of fact, many DBAs and System Administrators contributed to the ZRM project by providing their requirements and use cases for MySQL backup and recovery. Addressing the real needs of DBAs, ZRM is the only solution for MySQL that provides granular Recovery Point Objective, so a DBA can recover a database to a point in time just before data loss happened.

If you are interested in using open source backup and recovery software, please download our products from the downloads page. Community users would benefit if you would provide feedback, success stories and best practices through forums discussions or documentation.

If you are already developing open source backup and recovery software or are interested in participating in one--or if you just want to talk to us about our community efforts, please send an email to community (at) zmanda.com

Community Resources

Zmanda Forums (Beta): Communication platform for the Open Source Data Protection Software community

Discuss, ask questions, or post answers about backup and recovery software, IT processes and work flows. Zmanda forums (Beta)

Zmanda Wiki (Beta): Live documentation written by users for users

The goal of this Wiki is to provide comprehensive and up-to-date documentation on the Amanda and ZRM for MySQL projects and related technologies. Zmanda Wiki (Beta)