Reliable, cost-effective backup and recovery protection for your Macintosh systems
The Zmanda Mac OS X Client provides a reliable, cost-effective solution to protect your Macintosh systems running Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. Zmanda Mac OS X clients interface seamlessly with the Zmanda Management Console, enabling administrators to use one intuitive, point-and-click interface to backup multiple Mac OS X systems as well as other Linux, Solaris, Windows systems, databases and applications on the network.
Amanda Enterprise augments the Time Machine which backs up a single Mac OS X desktop or laptop at a time to local disk. With Amanda Enterprise, you can perform centralized backup of multiple Mac OS X systems and save backups to tape, optical devices and Amazon S3, in addition to disk.
Amanda Enterprise backup server is installed on either a Linux or Solaris server and Zmanda Mac OS X Clients are installed on all servers and desktops running Mac OS X.
- Centralized and scalable backup. Backup multiple Mac OS X clients to a single master backup server without impacting users and applications
- Packaged dependencies. Mac OS X Client is an easy to install package with pre-built dependencies.
- Simple, flexible backups. Supports full and incremental backups.
- Flexible media options. Write backups to tape, disk, optical devices and Amazon S3.
- Open source formats. Uses only industry standard data formats such as GNU tar data format.
- Hard links. Maintains the integrity of hard links during backup.
- Sparse files. Supports the backup of sparse files to optimize the use of storage media for backups.
- Timestamps unchanged. File timestamps remain intact during backup.
- Include/exclude lists. Administrators can choose to include or exclude specific files and directories during backup.
- Resource forks. Backup preserves resource forks used by many Mac applications and files.
- Security. Supports data encryption and compression.
- Support. POWER and Intel architectures.
| Zmanda Mac OS X Client Release Support |
| Mac OS X 10.5 |
| Mac OS X 10.4 |
| Mac OS X 10.6 |
| Mac OS X 10.7 (Intel only) |
- Demos
- Datasheets
- Whitepapers
- Top Considerations for Implementing Secure Backup & Recovery
- IDC Report: Backup and Recovery: The Open Source Option Comes of Age
- Advantages of Amanda Over Proprietary Backup
- Introduction to Amanda Enterprise
- Cost-Effective Data Protection for Microsoft Windows Environments
- FAQ
- Success Stories
- Blog: Network Backup and Recovery
- Levels of support: Basic, Standard and Premium
- Pricing
- Compatibility Matrix: List of supported operating systems, databases and applications
- Coverity certification: Amanda passes Homeland Security Rung 2
