Amanda (software)

Amanda
Developer(s)
Stable release
3.5.4[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 25 August 2023
Repository
Written in
Operating system
TypeTape backup software
License
Websiteamanda.org

The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Amanda) is an open source computer archiving tool that is able to back up data residing on multiple computers on a network. It uses a client–server model, where the server contacts each client to perform a backup at a scheduled time.[3]: 125-147 

Amanda was initially developed at the University of Maryland and is released under a BSD-style license.[2] Amanda is available both as a free community edition and fully supported enterprise edition. Amanda runs on almost any Unix or Unix-like systems. Amanda supports Windows systems using Samba or a native Win32 client with support for open files.[4]

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.

  1. ^ "Download Amanda".
  2. ^ a b c d Martineau, Jean-Louis (25 August 2017). "zmanda/amanda/AUTHORS". Public. GitHub. Amanda. Archived from the original on 16 December 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  3. ^ Joukovski, Dmitri; Weichinge, Stefan G. (23 January 2007). "4. Amanda". In Preston, W. Curtis (ed.). Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems. O'Reilly Media. p. 125-147. ISBN 978-0596102463. LCCN 2007273944. OCLC 123539755. OL 7581383M – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ "Zmanda Windows Client". Zmanda. 1 September 2016. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2022.