We use it: Research, Education and Extension Program Department of Agriculture Washington, DC
Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -----Original Message----- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Amanda Users Subject: Re: Who uses Amanda? >On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > >- (This might seem like a stupid question to this group, but) I'm being >- challenged by the folks who can't get my firewall setup to work with >- Amanda that I should adopt a more "industry-standard" backup product. >- Hogwash. But, I would like to at least offer an answer. >- >- Anyone have any guesses how many institutions and individuals are using >- amanda? >- >- Anyone know, or want to self-disclose, some "noteworthy" institutions >- using amanda? If you think this would clog up the list too badly, email >- me privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and after a week or so, I'll >- compile a list and post it to the email list. Even more important than who uses it, is how good is it. And I can tell you from personal experience this last month that it works very good. I had 4 disk crashes over a period of 5 weeks now (yes, that's more than the 15 years before), all on critical systems. I've restored everything from amanda tapes, up to the last byte. Among the crashed disks was: one with home directories for a complete department (on Solaris), one with the second drive on a PC running W2000 (containing only data), one with the only disk in Linux computer (boot from cd, and restore over the network), and another one containing the root filesystem of a Linux machine, located outside the firewall (boot from cd, while computer is moved inside firewall, and restore over network). Between crash and final reboot was no more then 3 hours for each of the systems. (Yes, I have no spare disks anymore now, if something crashes today, they will have to wait till I have new disks :-) -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
