Zmanda Cloud Backup is an online backup software by open source backup company Zmanda

Zmanda

Zmanda Inc. is an Open Source and Cloud backup software company. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.. In partnership with open source companies such as Sun and MySQL, the company contributes to many open source projects.-Open Source Projects:...

 which enables users to back up their data to cloud storage

Cloud storage

Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage where data is stored on virtualized pools of storage which are generally hosted by third parties. Hosting companies operate large data centers; and people who require their data to be hosted buy or lease storage capacity from them and use it for...

. The software uses the Amazon S3

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces...

 service from Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing services that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com...

 as the cloud storage service but also supports private cloud solutions such as Walrus by Eucalyptus via the open source ZCloud API.
As of March 2011, the software runs only on Windows platforms. For non-Windows platforms the company offers the open source Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver

Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver

Amanda, previously known as Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver is an open source computer archiving tool that is able to back up data residing on multiple computers on a network...

 with Amazon S3

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces...

 as the storage location.

Features

ZCB supports Japanese and German languages. In addition to Windows NTFS file system, it supports backup/restore of the following enterprise applications:

• Microsoft SQL Server
  Microsoft SQL Server
  Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...
  
  
• Microsoft Exchange Server
  Microsoft Exchange Server
  Microsoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products...
  
  
• Microsoft SharePoint
  Microsoft SharePoint
  Microsoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide...
  
  
• MySQL Database
  MySQL
  MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
  
  
• Windows System State
  System Restore
  System Restore is a component of Microsoft's Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, but not Windows 2000, operating systems that allows for the rolling back of system files, registry keys, installed programs, etc., to a previous state in the event of system malfunction or failure.The...
  
  
• Oracle Database
  Oracle Database
  The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
  
  
• Network-mapped drives

Reception

The product was featured by Microsoft on its website. In August 2010, The Motley Fool reviewed the product and called it a product which make the backups "simple and inexpensive".

See also

• Comparison of online backup services
• Zmanda
  Zmanda
  Zmanda Inc. is an Open Source and Cloud backup software company. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.. In partnership with open source companies such as Sun and MySQL, the company contributes to many open source projects.-Open Source Projects:...
  
  
• Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
  Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
  Amanda, previously known as Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver is an open source computer archiving tool that is able to back up data residing on multiple computers on a network...
  
  
• Zmanda Recovery Manager
  Zmanda Recovery Manager
  Zmanda Recovery Manager is a perl-based utility used to automate backup and recovery of MySQL databases. It is released under the GNU General Public License....