AMANDA USAGE SURVEY


Weekly Posting 2 of 3  April 16, 2003.

This survey of amanda users is intended to provide answers
to frequent questions like "Who uses amanda?", "Can amanda
be used to back up MY size installation?", "What kind of
hardware can be used with amanda?".

Survey responses will be posted to the amanda-users mailing
list as a summary and also to the Faq-O-Matic on amanda.org.

    DO NOT POST YOUR RESPONSES TO THE MAILING LIST!!!

Send them to jon AT jgcomp DOT com or jonjgc AT yahoo DOT com

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Information About Individual Responding to Survey

        Name .......... :
        Organization .. :
        Email Address   :
        Date Submitted  :

   Note, responder information is requested for confirmation
   and clarification purposes only.  It will not be included
   in any published compendium of the information.

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Information about Organization Using AMANDA

        Name ..................... :
        Department ............... :
        Description .............. :
        Location ................. :
          (country)
        Extent of Amanda Usage ... :
          (entire organization, department, subnet, ...)
        Date of First Amanda Usage :
          (yyyy/mm)

    Note, if you prefer the organization remain anonymous,
    please do provide descriptive information (eg. Fortune 100
    insurance company, German computer manufacturer, eastern
    state university, independent consultant home office, ...)

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Description of AMANDA Servers
  (do not include amanda clients here)

        Number of Server Host(s) :
        Operating System(s) .... :
        Amanda Version(s) ...... :

    Note, if you are running multiple configurations please
    try to give pooled values; alternatively, repeat parts
    of the survey as necessary.

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Description of AMANDA Clients
   (include servers if they are also clients)
   (if you have PC clients or other non-UNIX clients,
    include them here AND fill out next section also)

        Number of Client Hosts  :
        Operating System(s) ... :
        Amanda Version(s) ..... :

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Description of Non-UNIX, AMANDA Clients

        Number of PC Clients Backed up via SAMBA :
        Operating System(s) ... :

        Number of PC's with a CYGWIN-AMANDA client installation  :
        Operating System(s) ... :

        Number of PC's backed up with AMANDA by other techniques :
        Operating System(s) ... :
        Technique(s) Used :

        Number of Other Non-UNIX Systems Backed up via AMANDA :
        Operating System(s) ... :
        Technique(s) Used :

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Description of AMANDA Installation

        Backup Program(s) Used .............. :
          (tar, some dump, other)
        Compression Used .................... :
          (none, hw, sw - client side, sw - server side, ...)

        Dumpcycle ........................... :
        Frequency of Backups ................ :
          (daily, weekly, 5/week, ...)

        Total Disk Capacity of Client Hosts ...... :
        Total Data on Client Host Disks .......... :
        Average Size of Data Backed Up Per Backup  :
          (pre-compression)
        
        Brand/Model Tape Drive(s) Used ...... :
        Native Capacity of Single Tape ...... :
        Tape Format(s) Used ................. :
          (DLT, sDLT, DAT-3, LTO, etc.)
        Preferred Brand of Tape (if any) .... :

        Brand/Model Tape Changer or Library . :
        Size of Library (Number of Tapes) ... :
        Size of Library (Tapes x Capacity) .. :
        Size of Library (Number of Drives) .. :

        Do you use the AMANDA file:driver ... :
        If not, do you expect to ............ :

        Do you use AMANDA RAIT .............. :
        If yes, how many drives in your RAIT  :
        If not, do you expect to ............ :

    Note, if you are running multiple configurations please
    try to give pooled values; alternatively, repeat parts
    of the survey as necessary.

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    Please send questions or the completed form
    to jon AT jgcomp DOT com
    or jonjgc AT yahoo DOT com