AMANDA USAGE SURVEY
Weekly Posting 3 of 3 April 23, 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 .......... : Jon LaBadie
Organization .. : JG Computing
Email Address : jon AT jgcomp DOT com
Date Submitted : 4/28/2003
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 ..................... : JG Computing
Department ............... :
Description .............. : Education Consulting
Location ................. : USA
(country)
Extent of Amanda Usage ... : Entire
(entire organization, department, subnet, ...)
Date of First Amanda Usage : 4/1999
(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) : 1
Operating System(s) .... : Solaris 9
Amanda Version(s) ...... : 2.4.4
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 : 5
Operating System(s) ... : Solaris 8, Solaris 9, HP-UX 11, Tru 64,
Windows 2K
Amanda Version(s) ..... : 2.4.2 2.4.3 2.4.4
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Description of Non-UNIX, AMANDA Clients
Number of PC Clients Backed up via SAMBA : 0
Operating System(s) ... :
Number of PC's with a CYGWIN-AMANDA client installation : 1
Operating System(s) ... : Windows 2K
Number of PC's backed up with AMANDA by other techniques : 1
Operating System(s) ... : Windows 2K
Technique(s) Used : NFS mounts
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 ufsdump
(tar, some dump, other)
Compression Used .................... : sw server
(none, hw, sw - client side, sw - server side, ...)
Dumpcycle ........................... : 7
Frequency of Backups ................ : 6/wk
(daily, weekly, 5/week, ...)
Total Disk Capacity of Client Hosts ...... : 180GB
Total Data on Client Host Disks .......... : 80 GB
Average Size of Data Backed Up Per Backup : 14 GB
(pre-compression)
Brand/Model Tape Drive(s) Used ...... : HP SureStore
Native Capacity of Single Tape ...... : 12 GB
Tape Format(s) Used ................. : DDS3
(DLT, sDLT, DAT-3, LTO, etc.)
Preferred Brand of Tape (if any) .... : HP
Brand/Model Tape Changer or Library . : HP 6x24 SureStore
Size of Library (Number of Tapes) ... : 6
Size of Library (Tapes x Capacity) .. : 72 GB
Size of Library (Number of Drives) .. : 1
Do you use the AMANDA file:driver ... : no
If not, do you expect to ............ : yes
Do you use AMANDA RAIT .............. : no
If yes, how many drives in your RAIT :
If not, do you expect to ............ : yes
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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