Amanda Alternatives

Amanda is described as 'The most popular open source backup and recovery software in the world. Amanda protects more than a million servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows operating systems worldwide' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Amanda for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Android apps. The best Amanda alternative is CrashPlan. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try UrBackup or Areca Backup. Other great apps like Amanda are Proxmox Backup Server, Bacula, BackupPC and Veritas Backup Exec.

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  1. CrashPlan icon

    CrashPlan

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    Provides continuous, automated cloud backup and secure, scalable recovery for business servers, endpoints, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace, protecting critical data from deletion, ransomware, and failure with compliance, threat detection, and easy management features.

    104 CrashPlan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • CrashPlan is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Amanda.

    • CrashPlan is the most popular commercial alternative to Amanda.

    • CrashPlan is Paid and ProprietaryAmanda is Free Personal and Proprietary
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    UrBackup

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    UrBackup is a open source client/server backup system, that through a combination of image and file backups accomplishes both data safety and a fast restoration time.

    47 UrBackup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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    • UrBackup is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Amanda.

    • UrBackup is Free and Open SourceAmanda is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • UrBackup is LightweightAmanda is not according to our users
  4. Areca Backup icon

    Areca Backup

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    Areca Backup is a file backup software which can be run on Windows or Linux. It creates backup copies (which can be encrypted and compressed) of your files and stores them on external drives, USB keys, FTP servers, supporting incremental, differential and full backups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Proxmox Backup Server icon

    Proxmox Backup Server

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    Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise backup solution, for backing up and restoring VMs, containers, and physical hosts. By supporting incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup Server significantly reduces network load and saves valuable storage space.

    42 Proxmox Backup Server alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Debian
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    • Proxmox Backup Server is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Amanda.

    • Proxmox Backup Server is Freemium and Open SourceAmanda is Free Personal and Proprietary
  6. Bacula icon

    Bacula

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    Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.

    77 Bacula alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  7. BackupPC icon

    BackupPC

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    BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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    • BackupPC is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Amanda.

    • BackupPC is Free and Open SourceAmanda is Free Personal and Proprietary
  9. Veritas Backup Exec icon

    Veritas Backup Exec

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    Backup Exec gives you simple, complete backup and recovery protection for your business—to cover all data wherever it resides.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Bareos

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    Bareos is a 100% open source fork of the backup project Bacula . Bareos is in development since late 2010, it has a lot of new features: Certified for SUSE, Red-Hat, Univention, Oracle Linux, AIX , Solaris, BSD with lots of Plugins for NetApp...

    13 Bareos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. ShadowProtect icon

    ShadowProtect

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    Fast and reliable disk-based backup that captures full, differential and incremental point-in-time backup images of your entire system. This includes the operating system, applications, configuration settings and data.

    47 ShadowProtect alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Rsnapshot

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    rsnapshot is a rsync based backup utillity, providing filesystem snapshot functionality. It can take incremental snapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines.

    42 Rsnapshot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  13. BackupChain icon

    BackupChain

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    BackupChain Backup Software backs up your system, virtual machines, and databases while running. Run backups locally, remotely, and off-site via FTP with this professional backup utility. Includes FTP server.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  14. Wasabi icon

    Wasabi

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    Storage made simple. Faster than Amazon's S3. Less expensive than Glacier.

    113 Wasabi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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