Free Backup Software - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, Tar, Rsync, Bacula, Create Synchronicity, Backuppc, Areca Backup, Cpio (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, Tar, Rsync, Bacula, Create Synchronicity, Backuppc, Areca Backup, Cpio, Clonezilla, Partimage, Mondo Rescue, Duplicity, Ping, Grsync, Zmanda Recovery Manager, Dump, Cwrsync, Deltacopy. Excerpt: Developer(s): University of Maryland, College Park, Zmanda Amanda, or the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver 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 and includes: All three servers do not necessarily need to run on the same machine. Amanda was initially developed at the University of Maryland and is released under a BSD-style license . Amanda is available both as a free community edition and fully supported enterprise edition. Amanda runs on almost any Unix or Linux-based systems. Amanda supports Windows systems using Samba or Cygwin . A native Win32 client (with support for open files) is also now available. 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. Among its key features is an intelligent scheduler which optimizes use of computing resources across backup runs. Major releases The most recent stable release is version 2.6.1p2, released on November 6, 2009. Amanda Enterprise Edition Amanda Enterprise Edition is a commercial version of Amanda which has been developed by Zmanda . It includes a management GUI - Zmanda Management Console (ZMe and other enterprise features such as scheduler, plugin framework and also an optional cloud backup service support. The plugin framework allows for application specific back...