Re: sites using amanda - possible survey
On 25-Jan-2002, I started a thread with the subject Who uses Amanda? I got many answers up through 30-Jan. One of the most comprehensive came from John Jackson: = There are currently 1187 addresses on the amanda-users mailing list, and 561 on amanda-hackers. Running that all through uniq (and some other Perl magic), I came up with 1257 domains represented. Some caveats about that number. Not all sites running Amanda subscribe to the mailing lists, but not everybody subscribed to the list runs Amanda. Also, some of the addresses are clearly internal mailing lists, so the number of people who actually get the E-mail is certainly higher. Looking through the list, paying particular attention to .com's (since they are so much more important the rest of us peons :-), I see several names I recognize right away: 3com.com (3com) adp.com (ADP) attbi.com (ATT) bbn.com (BBN) boeing.com(Boeing) corning.com (Corning) cypress.com (Cypress) daimlerchrysler.com (Chysler) dell.com (Dell) fedex.com (Federal Express) ge.com(General Electric) goodyear.com (GoodYear) harris.com(Harris) honeywell.com (Honeywell) hp.com(Hewlitt-Packard) ibm.com (IBM) informix.com (Informix) kodak.com (Kodak) mot.com (Motorola) nokia.com (Nokia) nsc.com (National Semiconductor) oracle.com(Oracle) philips.com (Phillips) redhat.com(Red Hat) ricoh.com (Ricoh) siemens.com (Siemans) sun.com (Sun) trw.com (TRW) valinux.com (VA Linux) xerox.com (Xerox) I'm sure there's a few billion dollars of worth floating around there, and I only looked at the U.S. .com entries. There are almost 500 international entries and another hundred .edu's (and if you don't think universities are in it for the money ... :-). John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = You should be able to search the archives with this specific subject and find all the responses. Let me know if I can help in any way. -Kevin Zembower Toni Schlichting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/26/02 03:59PM Meanwhile I prepared a list of projects in which Amanda was used. As F-O-M doesn't provide much information I followed a recommendation of Dietmar Goldbeck who suggested to search google like this: http://www.google.de/search?num=50hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=amanda+datensicherung I exchanged the term datensicherung with backup and ended up with a huge number of hits. Then I searched the list for entries which gave a strong indication like this one: http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/manual/install/ Where I could find the following statement: At the LII we use and like the Amanda backup software This finally lead to an entry in my list. What do you think about the idea to contact all the admins who placed those nice statements on the web-sites, to make them enter their project into F-O-M? Best Regards Toni Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Sunday, August 25, 2002 at 12:54:22 (-0500), Brandon D. Valentine wrote: ] Subject: Re: sites using amanda - possible survey On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: I've not seen a survey done in this mailing list, but I wonder if one would be appropriate to get a reasonable answer to this question. Then we could put a as of date XYZ, amanda was known to be in use in these organizations into the F-O-M. I did this several months ago: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/319.html
Re: sites using amanda - possible survey
[ On Sunday, August 25, 2002 at 12:54:22 (-0500), Brandon D. Valentine wrote: ] Subject: Re: sites using amanda - possible survey On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: I've not seen a survey done in this mailing list, but I wonder if one would be appropriate to get a reasonable answer to this question. Then we could put a as of date XYZ, amanda was known to be in use in these organizations into the F-O-M. I did this several months ago: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/319.html good start, but I really don't like thos F-O-M things and would never go to the trouble of getting an ID so I could submit stuff to one. (an open WIKI, on the other hand) I'd like it if more people would add their organizations to the list but I can only spend so much time prodding this forum. ;-) Why spend any time beyond that required for the first message? That's what cron is for! :-) -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098;[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Planix, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sites using amanda - possible survey
Meanwhile I prepared a list of projects in which Amanda was used. As F-O-M doesn't provide much information I followed a recommendation of Dietmar Goldbeck who suggested to search google like this: http://www.google.de/search?num=50hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=amanda+datensicherung I exchanged the term datensicherung with backup and ended up with a huge number of hits. Then I searched the list for entries which gave a strong indication like this one: http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/manual/install/ Where I could find the following statement: At the LII we use and like the Amanda backup software This finally lead to an entry in my list. What do you think about the idea to contact all the admins who placed those nice statements on the web-sites, to make them enter their project into F-O-M? Best Regards Toni Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Sunday, August 25, 2002 at 12:54:22 (-0500), Brandon D. Valentine wrote: ] Subject: Re: sites using amanda - possible survey On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: I've not seen a survey done in this mailing list, but I wonder if one would be appropriate to get a reasonable answer to this question. Then we could put a as of date XYZ, amanda was known to be in use in these organizations into the F-O-M. I did this several months ago: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/319.html
Re: sites using amanda - possible survey
[ On Monday, August 26, 2002 at 21:59:07 (+0200), Toni Schlichting wrote: ] Subject: Re: sites using amanda - possible survey This finally lead to an entry in my list. What do you think about the idea to contact all the admins who placed those nice statements on the web-sites, to make them enter their project into F-O-M? Well, as such an admin who could be convinced to put a nice statement on a web site about some free software I might use, I can say with certainty that _I_ would not be convinved to enter my own information into any F-O-M web thingy, though I wmight easily grant permission for someone else to do so on my behalf. I.e. these things _REALLY_ need live human editors and/or maintainers. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098;[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Planix, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sites using amanda - possible survey
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:45:08PM +0200, someone wrote: Can anybody of you provide me with a list of reference installations for amanda? This question comes up frequently. I've not seen a survey done in this mailing list, but I wonder if one would be appropriate to get a reasonable answer to this question. Then we could put a as of date XYZ, amanda was known to be in use in these organizations into the F-O-M. If this is not objectionable, I'll volunteer to put together some kind of survey form and post it weekly for say 4 weeks. I'd ask the responses be emailed to me directly (not to the list) and will collate the results. As an alternative, or addition, a survey form could be emailed to just the subscriber list. I think many posters are not subscribers. Conversely, many subscribers may not be regular readers. Thoughts? Positive or Negative. jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
