| I use and have been using Amanda Network Backup for ~5 years now, and am extremely happy with the results. Some of the highlights of my decision to use this tool include: - Uses native OS tools (tar, gzip, gpg in my case) for the actual backups and restores, and includes the actual command used to create the archive in the header of the archive! You can use this to restore it without Amanda in the event of an emergency. - Supports on-disk backups in a holding area for quick restores - Supports S3 as a virtual tape library - Supports vaulting (i.e. moving an archive from one tape library to another) - Your choice of client, server, or no compression & encryption - Highly scriptable - Works over SSH, among other methods - Catalog data is easily backed up itself via simple OS commands, and stored in S3. The systems I backup are all in AWS, so this is ideal for me. I've frequently thought it would be ideal to adapt Amanda's script agents to creating EBS snapshots, but I simply haven't had the time. It's on my someday-maybe list. Remember to vault your backups to another region! (Edits: formatting) |