>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 least offer an answer.
>-
>- Anyone have any guesses how many institutions and individuals are using
>- amanda?
>-
>- Anyone know, or want to self-disclose, some "noteworthy" institutions
>- using amanda? If you think this would clog up the list too badly, email
>- me privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and after a week or so, I'll
>- compile a list and post it to the email list.
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 critical systems.
I've restored everything from amanda tapes, up to the last byte.
Among the crashed disks was: one with home directories for a complete
department (on Solaris), one with the second drive on a PC running
W2000 (containing only data), one with the only disk in Linux computer
(boot from cd, and restore over the network), and another one containing
the root filesystem of a Linux machine, located outside the firewall (boot
from cd, while computer is moved inside firewall, and restore over network).
Between crash and final reboot was no more then 3 hours for each of the
systems.
(Yes, I have no spare disks anymore now, if something crashes today,
they will have to wait till I have new disks :-)
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