What is Amanda?

AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup solution that allows the IT administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda uses native utilities and formats (e.g. dump and/or GNU tar) and can back up a large number of servers and workstations running multiple versions of Linux or Unix. Amanda uses a native Windows client to back up Microsoft Windows desktops and servers.

What is Amanda ?
A fully integrated system! Amanda is a fully integrated business system which contains everything from customer details, offer, order, production, logistics, project, economy, salary to market and personal planning. Helps the Management with business flows and who is doing what and when. 30 years in this business has created a system for your needs and which is easy to use! That a system has existed many years in the market means that it has a very high operational security with complete logic and support routines for daily carelessness and operator mistakes.

The System you wont grow out of!

Amanda can be run in modules, where you gradually can grow into the system in the speed that is convenient for you and your Company. To arrange registers and routines will cost time, money and draws on your Companys resources. Make sure you dont need to do this more than once. To grow out of a system is costly. Amanda follows your own and your Companys development. It is easy to see the needs of today. It is more difficult to foresee those of tomorrow. With Amanda you will receive updates 12 times per year, where both your own wishes and others mostly are met. At the same time Amanda is continually updated with new laws and rules for taxes, accounting forms, etc.

Easy to use!
Amanda follows Windows standard for menus, registration, printouts and export of data.Everything looks the same everywhere. All printouts of lists can also be exported to Excel. Amandas full integration means that details which are registered automatically update other subsystems. If a company address is changed addresses in for example activity registers under the CRM system are automatically changed.

All Amanda systems are equal!

The system standard is part of the core of safety for you as a user. Everyone working with Amanda in our organisation knows Amandas system standard. Education and support are simpler for you as a user. You benefit from our improvements as all news included in every update can be used immediately.

Built in business solutions!

Amanda has a large number of business functions built in as standard. No company is like the other. It is important not to need to renounce demands because you choose a standard system. Custom designed business systems often have difficulties to follow the development of general routines, and are furthermore expensive to run in the end. If you instead choose a standard system you will get a higher speed of development for a substantially lower cost in the long run. Most routines can be run within Amandas standard. If not we can offer custom-made solutions.

You will have a rapid start!

Amanda is pre-configured with a chart of accounts, reports, lists and forms so that you will only need to add your own data, such as customers and articles so you can be up and running at once.

International function ability

Amanda can be run in different languages within the same company. Printouts can be made in different languages, with different currencies and date formats.

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.

Why Amanda?
Safe investment o o o A system growing with your business activities and is updated continually A stable and secure system which has existed for many years. A supplier with solid economy and progressive strategyReduces future migration costs Efficient routines and fast and cost efficient implementation Implementation at a fixed price and according to a fixed time plan Adapted solutions built on market knowledge and business models Rapid returns on invested capital Many functions More than you need today but good to have tomorrowContinually updated with new solutions and functions Gives specific support to different business roles and company positions Business solutions with a minimum of possible adjustment needs Enables a lot of different businesses to use previous experiences Access to Amandas expert knowledge about market solutions Wholly integrated operations Completely integrated business solutions Market leading business processes built on experience of more than 1 600 customers in more than 130 marketsLong experience of business systems Continually developed. Supports co-operation and business via Internet Supports advanced business via Internet, Edi and Freight systems Makes co-operation possible along the chain of value of all business activiti

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AMANDA provides you with an enterprise licensing solution to manage all aspects of business and professional licensing including issuance, renewals, fees, complaints, investigations and audits.
Amanda Enterprise Edition is a commercial version of Amanda which has been developed by Zmanda. It includes a management GUI - Zmanda Management Console (ZMC) and other enterprise features such as scheduler, plugin framework and also an optional cloud backup service support. The cloud backup option uses the Amazon S3 service from Amazon Web Services as the cloud storage provider and enables safe offsite storage of the Amanda backup data. The plugin framework allows for application specific backups and is used by Amanda Enterprise to support applications such as Oracle database, Samba network share, NDMP etc. Amanda Enterprise also supports image level backup of live VMs running on VMware infrastructure. Amanda, previously known as 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 clientserver model, where the server contacts each client to perform a backup at a scheduled time. Amanda was initially developed at the University of Maryland and is released under a BSDstyle license [5]. 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 Sambaor a native Win32 client with support for open files [6]. 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.