Zmanda offers backup to Amazon's S3

by Jason Harris Jan 11th 2008

Zmanda, a company who specializes in enterprise multi-platform network backup, has announced a partnership with Amazon.com to make their backup services work with Amazon's S3 storage service. Zmanda is a company which specializes in offering support around the Amanda backup software package.

Zmanda has been in business since 2005 and specialized in centralized enterprise backup with clients that work on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X and up until this point offered backup to disk and tape. Their new agreement with Amazon's S3 shows S3's influence in the off-site backup market. Amazon S3 offers very inexpensive, secure storage for individuals, developers, and companies.

To get started using Zmanda, visit their website and download the client appropriate for your computer. Also check out their press release for more information about the partnership with Amazon.

Tags: amanda, amazon, backup, s3, zmanda

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Bill Minton said 2:53PM on 1-11-2008

Another alternative would be S3Drive - http://www.suchwerk.net/sodcms_S3Drive_at_work.htm

It's what I've been using for probably a year or longer now. It's running on my fileserver and works just like a mapped drive.

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