Re: Who uses amanda? -- RFC

2003-03-15 Thread Stephen D. Lane
- Forwarded message from Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > This regular query never made it to the FAQ-O-Matic I see. > > A proposal, I'll put together a survey form (sample follows) > and ask the list for submissions. > > After a period I'll summarize the data, hopefully in a table >

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > > > > Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company > > (> 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's > > used (whole institution, small department, si

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
"Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company > (> 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's > used (whole institution, small department, single server etc). How many > Gb do you back up (don't answer that if you fee

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-13 Thread Robert Hazbun
I previously worked at Florida International University in the Computer Science department. We used amanda to back up the entire dept network which was several hundred gigs. With a little reading, testing, and patience, you can get better results from amanda than from a veritas system, IMHO. Ro

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-13 Thread Eric . Doutreleau
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: We are a french university and we use amanda to backup our unix system. here is our configuration. library DLT1 with 10 slots 650Go of backup with 70 hosts our server is a dell poweredge 1650 with a Gigabit Card. > Can anyone tell me if they use am

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-13 Thread Dietmar Goldbeck
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:59:45AM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > b) Have no intention of using it myself for my home computer, but wonder > if its a variable option in a university department (~100 staff). > Well Amanda has several disadvantages: - poor support for non Unix-like Operating sy

RE: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-13 Thread Pablo Jejcic
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Bijnens Sent: 12 March 2003 17:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dr. David Kirkby; Amanda Users Subject: Re: Who uses amanda? Gene Heskett wrote: > > But since amanda is a client/server setup, and the clie

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread philo vivero
> I have been told that I didn't allow for the cost of my time to > implement and babysit our system; but from watching one of my > colleagues struggle with our Tivoli implementation, I'm not sure it > makes that much of a difference. Hrm. In a past life, I implemented Amanda in a company that b

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Wayne Richards
ervers. We back up approximately 30 Gigs of data with > it. > > Michael Martinez > CSREES/ISTM/USDA > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 9:34 AM > > To: Dr. David Ki

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wed March 12 2003 12:45, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> But since amanda is a client/server setup, and the client can be >> told to do the compression, the next consideration would be the >> occupied network bandwidth while the backup is running. Using >> client compression can mak

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gene Heskett wrote: But since amanda is a client/server setup, and the client can be told to do the compression, the next consideration would be the occupied network bandwidth while the backup is running. Using client compression can make night and day differences in the network loading and it

Re: Who uses amanda? -- RFC

2003-03-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
This regular query never made it to the FAQ-O-Matic I see. A proposal, I'll put together a survey form (sample follows) and ask the list for submissions. After a period I'll summarize the data, hopefully in a table of some form and submit it to the F-O-M. So, two questions: 1. Is the survey de

RE: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
March 12, 2003 9:34 AM > To: Dr. David Kirkby; Amanda Users > Subject: Re: Who uses amanda? > > > On Wed March 12 2003 06:59, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial > >company (> 250 employees), a hospital or a

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Mike Simpson
Dr. Kirkby -- I support about thirty or so UNIX servers (Solaris, AIX, Linux) that represent the development, testing, and production environments for the electronic resources of the University of Wisconsin at Madison Libraries. I started using Amanda 2.4.x about two years ago to do backups o

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wed March 12 2003 06:59, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial > company (> 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so > how much it's used (whole institution, small department, single > server etc). How many Gb do you back up (don't

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:22:34AM -0500) On the same lines, we use amanda at a couple of sites (Middle east, UK and the netherlands) handling somewhere between 1 and 2 Tb of data in total, and we're looking to expand the setup to include another Tb of data to be ba

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 at 11:59am, Dr. David Kirkby wrote > Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company > (> 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's > used (whole institution, small department, single server etc). How many > Gb do you back up (d

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Greg Troxel
For your home machine, amanda still makes sense. It can schedule full dumps of partitions over multiple nights, etc. and do the bookkeeping of what is on what tape. I know several people that run amanda at home. My department has ~30 employees. We run 2 amanda setups onto DDS3 and 1 onto DDS2,

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:59:45AM +, Dr. David Kirkby enlightened us: > Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company > (> 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's > used (whole institution, small department, single server etc). How many > G

Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company (> 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's used (whole institution, small department, single server etc). How many Gb do you back up (don't answer that if you feel its confidential, or you don't know

Re: who uses amanda?

2002-07-09 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Ronald O. Christian wrote: >The IS manager wants to be assured that Amanda has wide usage at large >companies or organizations. I know the National Institute of Health >and the US Department of Energy uses Amanda. Can anyone give me other >names the IS manager would recogniz

RE: who uses amanda?

2002-07-09 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -Original Message- From: Ronald O. Christian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: who uses amanda? My current project is to convince a local utility that switching to amanda from their

Re: who uses amanda?

2002-07-09 Thread Robert L Becker Jr
John's list was posted 26 Jan. It was derived from the addresses subscribed to the amanda lists. He posted a couple of well thought caveats. One to add is that using Amanda somewhere in an organization is not the same thing as using Amanda throughout the organization. It's not easy to get solid i

Re: who uses amanda?

2002-07-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 at 7:37am, Ronald O. Christian wrote > The IS manager wants to be assured that Amanda has wide usage at large > companies or organizations. I know the National Institute of Health > and the US Department of Energy uses Amanda. Can anyone give me other > names the IS manager w

who uses amanda?

2002-07-09 Thread Ronald O. Christian
My current project is to convince a local utility that switching to amanda from their defunct no-longer-supported backup system is a good idea. The IS manager wants to be assured that Amanda has wide usage at large companies or organizations. I know the National Institute of Health and the US D

RE: Who uses Amanda?

2002-06-24 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
, 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 firew

RE: Who uses Amanda?

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
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

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
>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 t

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-06-23 Thread Paul Lussier
>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

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-02-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
>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 t

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Hicks
Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 cri

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-01-29 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Thank you, Scaglione, for a clever possible solution that I wouldn't have thought of on my own. -Kevin Zembower >>> Scaglione Ermanno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/29/02 11:48AM >>> >>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: >> >>- (This might seem like a stupid question to this group, but) I'm bei

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-01-29 Thread Paul Lussier
>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

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-01-28 Thread Stephen Carville
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 leas

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-01-28 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
John, thank you so much for processing the archives to extract the domain portions of folk's email addresses. I was hoping someone had the ability to do that, and appreciate the time and energy it took for you to do it. Thanks, again. -Kevin Zembower >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/25/02 07:07PM >>> >

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-01-26 Thread John R. Jackson
> Well, I'm having the same firewall issues ... What firewall problems are both of you having? How have you configured Amanda to work in your environment? What version(s) of Amanda are you running? >(I'm not disparaging Amanda, just pointing out that there are a few >issues that may prev

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-01-25 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:34:20PM -0500, 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 w

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-01-25 Thread John R. Jackson
>(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. ... Good answer :-). >Anyone have any guesses how many institutions and i

Who uses Amanda?

2002-01-25 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
(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