Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems

4.5. Community and Support Options

We've described Amanda's core functionality, but there is more to learn. For in-depth information about Amanda monitoring, reporting, self-checking, encryption, and many other features, see the following resources.

Amanda is the only open-source backup software with enterprise support, available as a subscription from Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com). Zmanda also offers indemnification to select buyers of its Amanda Enterprise Edition subscription from any intellectual property infringement issues. In addition, professional services are available from Zmanda and several other organizations for installing and configuring Amanda.

Amanda documentation written by users for users is available at the Amanda wiki at http://wiki.zmanda.com. Ease of remote editing by multiple users, an ongoing archival of changes, and search capability are key features of this wiki. The Amanda community uses various collaboration tools including Amanda forums at http://forums.zmanda.com. Amanda users also have a very friendly mailing list at amanda-users@amanda.org with archives available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users.