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Amanda

Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver

Backup & Recovery ★ 272 stars Hard setup BSD-3-Clause

Amanda is a mature backup solution that allows an administrator to set up a single backup server to back up multiple hosts to tape, disk, or cloud storage. It is widely used in enterprise environments.

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Key features

  • Centralized network backups
  • Tape, disk, and cloud targets
  • Mature enterprise tooling

Strengths

  • Released under the BSD-3-Clause license
  • Written in C
  • Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Is Amanda secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Amanda's latest release (tag-community-3.5.4). OSV.dev lists 4 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2023-30577, published 2023-07-26 (1176 days ago), fixed in tag-community-3.5.4, 3.5.4

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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