On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:59:45AM +0000, Dr. David Kirkby enlightened us: > Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company > (> 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's > used (whole institution, small department, single server etc). How many > Gb do you back up (don't answer that if you feel its confidential, or > you don't know). >
David, We used amanda at my previous job in a small department at Ohio State University (Linguistics). We had about 20 faculty and 80 grad students. Amanda was used to backup the 2 servers, 20 or so Sun workstations, and a handful of faculty PCs running windows. I can't remember exactly how much data we backed up, but I believe it was about 80-90GB for a full dump of all the DLEs which we archived after every academic quarter. I am presently in the process of setting up amanda in a slightly larger department at Ohio University (Mathematics). I expect the numbers to be about the same, and may look into backing up all of our faculty computers. I also use amanda at home, and would trust it with the most critical of data. The big selling point there is that you don't need amanda to recover data from a tape...just dd, tar, and dump. Hope that helps, Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Ohio University (740) 593-1263
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