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Open Source Network backup with Amanda

According to Zmanda, Amanda is the most popular open source backup and recovery software in the world. Amanda protects more than half a million servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows operating systems worldwide.

I was looking for a better network backup for my servers than what I am using.  I found this one with some research, and I and going to set it up and try it out.  I will post how I it performed for me and any problems I have.  Here are some of the features and issues form their website.

Features

Issues and Limitations

Key Reasons for Wide Adoption of Amanda

 

You can find Amanda at http://www.zmanda.com/index.html

Their Wiki is here.   http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page

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3 Comments To "Open Source Network backup with Amanda"

#1 Comment By Andrew James On July 5, 2011 @ 14:19

Thank you for this article.This is what I was searching for,a good review about Amanda.This gave me everything I need.I found some more information at http://www.techyv.com/article/top-5-open-source-backup-software-os-split

#2 Comment By pwason On February 21, 2019 @ 11:15

15 minutes? I’ve been trying to set this up off and on for over 5 years. Something is broken. Help appreciated.

#3 Comment By ogwatermelon On February 23, 2019 @ 10:57

I stopped using this software some time ago. Everything is virtual now and we use vSphere Date Protection now.