Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver

Amanda, or the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver is the leading Open-Source computer archiving tool that is able to backup data via a network. It uses a client server model and includes:

the backup server and client itself

a tape server

an index server

All three servers do not necessarily need to run on the one machine.

Amanda was developed at the University of Maryland and is released under the GNU General Public License. It is provided without warranties and for no cost. Amanda runs on almost any Unix or Linux based systems. Recent versions support Windows based systems using Samba.

Amanda supports both tape based and disk based backup.