Alternatives to Amanda
Long-running network backup system for disk and tape. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Amanda
Long-running network backup system for disk and tape.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Amanda.
Bacula
Enterprise network backup system with director, storage and client daemons.
Bacula is AGPL-3.0 open source with director, storage and client daemons and a catalogue database, scaling to tape libraries but with extensive configuration.
Bareos
Network backup system that archives and restores data across mixed server fleets.
Bareos is an AGPL-3.0 client-server backup system with no open-core restrictions, though setup involves a director, storage daemons and a database.
BURP
Network backup and restore server with deduplication and encryption.
BURP adds deduplication, encryption and Windows VSS support through a central server, and like Amanda it has file-based configuration and no core GUI.
BackupPC
Back up computers to a centrally managed server.
BackupPC centralizes network backups on a Linux server with a web interface, but needs additional Perl and transfer dependencies to set up.
UrBackup
Manage file and image backups through a client-server system.
UrBackup is an open source client-server system that manages both file and image backups centrally, but requires maintaining a backup server.
Minarca
An open-source, self-hosted backup system with desktop agents and a central server for managing backups.
Minarca adds a central server dashboard with alerts and per-user quotas and is built on rdiff-backup, but it backs up files only rather than full system images or tape.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
rsnapshot
Filesystem snapshot backups using rsync and hard links.
rdiff-backup
Reverse incremental backup that keeps the newest copy as a plain mirror.
BorgBackup
A deduplicating archiver for Linux, macOS and BSD that makes daily backups cost almost nothing beyond the day’s changes.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
Proxmox Backup Server
Backup server for virtual machines, containers and physical hosts with deduplication.
Relax-and-Recover
A Linux bare-metal disaster recovery tool that creates bootable rescue media and ties into backup software.
