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 information. One subscriber, planning to post a
summary back to the list, asked users to email him directly. I can't find
the summary, possibly because he was buried in responses, maybe because
few took the time to respond, whatever.  Bottom line is that any
self-reported list is ok for illustration but it is almost certainly not
an accurate picture of usage. The same might be said about user lists or
testimonials from companies that sell backup products.

Aren't there folks in the trade magazines who run surveys on things like
backup software use? It would be interesting to see results from a survey
with Amanda in the running.

One more anecdotal data point -- we rely on Amanda for tape-based backups
in our activity. It has been *very* valuable to us, replacing the
commercial product from a company that was bought out (as best I can tell,
with the intent of killing off the affordable backup software that was the
main product of the absorbed company). For small (less than 1 TByte and
about twenty hosts) organizations like ours, with few $$ but determination
to get backups done, choosing Amanda is practically a no-brainer. Clearly
a lot of work has gone into making it scalable, so that even large
organizations can benefit. It would be useful to hear the experience of
some of the big dogs who use Amanda.

Robert Becker
Dept Cellular Pathology and Genetics
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> 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 would recognize?  (Utilities would be best, but I
> > will take anything.)
>
> Search the list archives a bit -- I recall John R. Jackson posting a
> listing of domain names subscribed to the list.  While a subscription
> doesn't necessarily imply use, the listing was long enough and had enough
> big names that it was rather impressive.
>
> As a random data point, I back up over .5TB over my dumpcycle with amanda
> and consider myself a pretty small install.  Of course, I'm just an edu...
> :)
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
>


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