How Amanda Enterprise is different from other backup software?
• Amanda Enterprise is an open source product, while the others are closed-source • Amanda Enterprise uses standard data formats such as tar and zip instead of proprietary ones • Amanda is the only open source data protection software certified by the US Department of Homeland Security • Amanda Enterprise provides intelligent scheduling that calculates optimal full and incremental backup levels for all of your clients so your backup windows is consistent every day, your resource usage optimized without having to purchase additional storage and network capacity to accommodate peak backup data volumes • Amanda Enterprise supports Open Source and user configurable encryption and data compression, while other solutions force you to use their encryption and compression routines • Zmanda Management Console (ZMC) that simplifies & automates all day-to-day activities of backup administrators such as configuring backup policies and schedules, adding new clients, click-and-restore files from bac