Backup to Amazon S3 - Zmanda Internet Backup

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"The biggest cost is not power, and it's not the servers, and it's not the people that maintain the data centers. The biggest cost is lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
With Amazon S3 you pay only for what you use.

Jeff Bezos,
Founder and CEO
Amazon.com

Zmanda Internet Backup to Amazon S3

Zmanda's mission is to ensure that our customers can always recover their data while making backup simple, secure and cost-effective. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) fits perfectly with this mission.

In addition to traditional backup to disk and tape, Amanda can now use Amazon S3 to backup, archive and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the Internet. Amanda Enterprise customers now get access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites.

Benefits

Streamlined offsite backup storage & recovery process
Layered security & bandwidth optimization
Retrieve data anytime, anywhere. Faster than restoring from offsite tape storage
Cost effective “pay as you go” ($0.20 per GB)
Easy to use & manage with Amanda Enterprise
Only online storage service backed by Amazon’s 99.9% SLA

Selecting Amazon S3 as a target for backup with ZMC

The intuitive browser-based Zmanda Management Console (ZMC) makes it very easy to configure Amazon S3 as a target for backup and archiving. After initial configuration, Amanda Enterprise securely sends a copy of your data for safe and secure storage on Amazon S3.

Tape Backup vs. Amazon S3

In comparison to traditional storing of tapes off-site for disaster recovery, the Amazon S3 provides streamlined recovery process with minimal downtime for your business.

Recovery from off-site tape	Recovery from Amazon S3
Identify location of the required tapes	Find files or directories using intuitive ZMC and click Restore
Request your off-site tape storage vendor, e.g. Iron Mountain, to deliver the tapes
Mount and read the tape until required data is found and recovered
Unload the tape and repeat with another tape if required
Total downtime for best case scenario is hours, but usually takes several days	Total downtime is a few minutes

Read how Zmanda Internet Backup to Amazon S3 is considered the leading “hybrid online backup solution” by Illuminata. Register to read the latest analyst report.

Please contact zsales@zmanda.com or call (888) 496-2632 for more information.

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