Amanda-Users

survey

2006-11-06 09:36:25
Subject: survey
From: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org, Chris Knight <knight AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:29:01 -0500
Just did the survey and wanted to expend a bit.

We have 17 Servers, RH, Solaris and IRIX based with the clients
generally being Solaris and IRIX, but will backup the odd RH or
SUSE system and even one OS X box (want to piss of your MAC guy ?
ask him what version of Linux OS X is.)

We backup to a variety of media, from DLT4000 up through LTO 3, most
tape drives are single tape units though we now have 6 jukeboxes (as
soon as I implement tape spanning 2.5.1 we'll be able to free up an
SDLT320 in favor of a jukebox already running on the same box, it was
a capacity issue... maybe we have 18 amanda servers this week.). We
have not used VTAPES.

One feature that we've been very close to, and there are wrapper
scripts that we could use, would be something that would allow amanda
to quiess our Oracle databases when backing up specific partitions
(or even the client), rather than a separate cron job that does this
with "aproximate" timing.

Amanda was installed and running for some period of time prior to my
arrival at this site, so we have been amanda users since before 1998
but I don't know how long before.

Needless to say, we are very happy with Amanda and our backup software
and recommend it highly.

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   Brian R Cuttler                 brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org
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   Wadsworth Center                (f) 518 473-6384
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