Amanda Community
Amanda Community
Free Open-Source Enterprise Backup & Recovery
- Hybrid Cloud Support
- Instant Recovery
- Secure Backup
- No Vendor Lock-ins
Our Specialist will guide you on using Amanda Enterprise for your organization
Trusted
Code freely available under BSD License
Evolving
Constant updates in the open to push innovation
Award-Winning
Multiple awards including: Linux Journal Readers' Choice Award
Overview
Our relentless pursuit of
innovation through open-source
Amanda community has delivered industry-first capabilities and world-class community support, producing countless loyal and satisfied customers across the globe. We have helped organizations navigate technological change for decades, while doing so in an open way.
Runs transparently from cron as needed.
Recovers gracefully from errors, including down or hung machines.
Reports results in detail, including all errors, via email.
Supports Kerberos 5 security, including encrypted dumps.
Amanda Community plugged in with Amanda Enterprise supports
Physical
Linux
Mac
Windows
Solaris
Virtual
VMware vSphere
Microsoft Hyper-V
Applications
MS Exchange
MS SharePoint
Active Directory
End Points
Windows Desktop
Linux Desktop
Databases
Oracle
MS SQL
PostgreSQL
MySQL
File System
NFS/ iSCSI/ Lustre
CIFS
Building trust through open-source
Amanda Community has been at the heart of the open-source backup and recovery community since 1991. From its inception, Amanda Community has been built natively for Linux following our developer ethos of the open-source. Amanda has a reputation for being a very flexible, secure, and trusted Linux backup and recovery solution, from physical to native clouds such as Amazon S3.
Linux Journal Award
Voted as the most reliable platform for Linux and UNIX users who are comfortable with a command-line interface.
Chosen by Millions
Amanda community is also available in Binaries form for most common operating systems and distributions.
BSD License
Amanda Community is available for anyone under the BSD License to review its processes, and report core issues.
Features
Modern Backup & Recovery must-haves
Near Realtime RPO
Near-zero RPO for virtualization systems helps you get your applications up-and-running within minutes. You are always protected with Amanda.
Pre-run Checker Program
Amanda Community offers a Pre-run Checker Program that conducts sanity checks on both the tape server host and all the client hosts simultaneously. It also sends an e-mail report of any problems that could cause the backups to fail.
Comprehensive Storage Options
Device API allows for easy integration with storage devices and bundled drivers support tapes, virtual tapes on disk, DVD-RW, RAIT, and Amazon S3. The amvault function can then copy backups to removable media for off-site (D2D2T) or cloud storage (D2D2C).
Backup Scheduling
Amanda’s unique approach to scheduling helps optimize backup loads across enterprise networks. Amanda community ensures data integrity while reducing manual interventions. It allows automated scheduling to back up large volumes of data.
Data Security
Encryption on the client ensures the security of data in transit, while encryption on the backup server ensures the security of data at rest. Amanda supports up to 4096-bit keys with public-key cryptography as well as 256-bit AES encryption.
What the experts say
Don’t Pay By the Gig
Customize your plans based on your enterprise backup needs.
Per Physical Server(s)/ File Share(s)
$29.99/month
Per VM(s)
$5.99/month
Per Workstation(s)
$2.99/month
All the Features You Need to Back Up Your Data
| Features | Zmanda Community |
Zmanda Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Automated Backups (Full and Incremental) | ||
| Backup file systems in Windows, Linux, Mac OS | ||
| Backup scheduler | ||
| Backup to storage- Cloud Storage, Disk {NAS, SAN, iSCSI}, Tape | ||
| Vaulting & Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape {D2D2T} | ||
| Open Formats for long-term archiving | ||
| Encryption and Compression of backup archives | ||
| Web Based Centralized Management Console | ||
| Reporting | ||
| User Management - LDAP, RBAC | ||
| Backup Server Replication {DR to a remote site} | ||
| Data Deduplication | ||
| Backup of VMs in Vmware | ||
| Security Enhanced Linux {SELinux} Support | ||
| Live Database backup | ||
| NDMP based backups of NAS Applications | ||
| Support & Services | ||
| 24x7 Production Support | ||
| Professional Services and Training | ||
| Free Trial | Free Trial |
Hybrid Cloud Supported through Amanda Enterprise
Zmanda offers you unparalleled flexibility, performance, and ease of use across hybrid cloud configuration.
Highlights
Robust features. Developed for your security.
Amanda community boasts robust encryption algorithms natively while also providing you the flexibility to switch to a proprietary algorithm if needed on the use case. Any encryption function capable of reading and writing from standard input/output can be easily integrated with Amanda. This flexibility allows Amanda to benefit from rapid advances in encryption technologies while giving the end-user maximum flexibility.
Multiple Encryption Points
Amanda allows for data encryption at every transmission point allowing secure transmission of data during backup runs. If backed up data being intercepted over an internal VPN were a concern, encrypting the data on the client would be the best recommendation.
Encryption using Hardware Accelerator Cards
One easy way to encrypt data in Amanda Community is to use a PCI-X or PCI-e based encryption accelerator board. A variety of such cards that securely store keys in the hardware are available. Hence, there is no need to write down a key or memorize a password, this also helps you mitigate data breaches due to lost passwords.
Amanda is available in
various forms
Amanda Open Source Backup (Community Edition): Freely downloadable and used by hundreds of thousands of sites around the world. Available in binary form for most common operating systems and distributions. The source code is also available.
Amanda Enterprise Edition: Fully supported and enhanced edition of Amanda. Includes Zmanda Management Console - a full-featured GUI for Amanda. Provides support for backing up live applications and databases.
Zmanda Backup Appliance: A pre-configured virtual machine to backup an entire network of systems and applications, based on Amanda Enterprise.
Want to learn more?
Whitepapers
Get to know Amanda through whitepapers and humor-filled technical docs written by open source experts.
Comparision
A simple glimpse into the difference between Amanda community and Amanda enterprise.
Documentation
Amanda Documentation is written by users, for users. From helping you get started to complex diagnosis, we got it all.
Frequently Asked Questions
Amanda Community Edition is a free and stable version of the world's most popular open-source Data recovery Software Amanda. Linux, Solaris, Windows, and Source packages are available. To download Amanda Community Edition, please visit our Amanda Community downloads.
Our Amanda Wiki page will help you get Amanda installed, up and running, and then point you to resources for modifying it to suit your needs. Think of it as the first step: get something simple working and figure out what makes it tick.
Amanda is the world's most popular Open Source Backup and Archiving software. Amanda allows System Administrators to set up a single backup server to back up multiple hosts to a tape- or disk- or cloud-based storage system. Amanda uses native archival tools and can back up a large number of workstations and servers running various versions of Linux, Unix (including OpenSolaris), Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems (Native Windows client and Samba). To read the documentation and to understand Amanda Community better, please visit our Zmanda Wiki page.
Amanda Community has been at the heart of the open-source backup and recovery community since 1991.It is what makes Amanda Community unique. We believe in collaboration. We believe in choice, control, and freedom. We have been pioneering open-source backup since 1991. Our open-source software is tried and trusted by IT teams around the world, protecting over 1 million servers. It offers automated & robust backup for businesses of all sizes.
Here’s why Amanda Community is the most trusted backup open-source software:
No Vendor Lock-ins: Data protected by us is always recoverable with no reliance on proprietary hardware or continual licensing.
Scalable Plug & Play Solution: We streamline data protection tasks as your business grows. We enable IT admins to protect additional systems using an intuitive configuration panel. Workloads are added seamlessly through one web console.
Works seamlessly with On-Prem and Cloud: We offer you unparalleled flexibility, performance, and ease of use across On-Prem and Cloud configuration.
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Amanda’s unique approach to scheduling helps optimize backup loads across enterprise networks. Amanda community ensures data integrity while reducing manual interventions. It allows automated scheduling to back up large volumes of data.
Amanda supports full & multi-level incremental backups using industry-standard data formats such as GNU-Tar & STAR. Start as small as three nodes & add resources as your requirements evolve across hybrid multi-cloud environments, making Zmanda a seamless continuous backup software.
Amanda backup has been at the heart of the open-source backup and recovery community since 1991. From its inception, Amanda Community has been built natively for Linux following our developer ethos of the open-source. Amanda has a reputation for being a very flexible, secure, and trusted Linux backup and recovery solution, from physical to native clouds such as Amazon S3.