On Thursday 13 April 2006 15:18, Dmitri Joukovski wrote: >Hi there,I am co-writing with Stefan G. Weichinger the Amanda chapter > for the upcoming 'Backup on a Budget' book and I'd like to describe a > few real-life implementations of Amanda. It would be beneficial to > the readers if you could provide me with some info to the questions > below (it's OK to skip some questions). > >I would appreciate replies within the next day or two. Don't worry if > you don't have time now. In the next month or two I plan conducting > in-depth survey of Amanda users that will be done online. > >----------------------- >Name of your organization (optional, but highly desirable). If you > can't tell the name of your employer, maybe you can tell what kind of > organization that is, e.g. university, manufacturing company, > financial services, government, etc > Home, basicly hobby, 4 or 5 machines when they are all running. >Any interesting Amanda stories you can tell. > >For how long have you been using Amanda? (I especially look for > examples where people used Amanda for more than a year in production) > About 7 years.
>What is your current version of Amanda? 2.5.0-20060411 snapshot, just installed 10 minutes ago. >What OS do you use for Amanda server? Linux, somewhat FC2, many many hacks. >How many Amanda servers do you have? 1 >How many Amanda clients per server do you have? (I especially look for >examples with 10+ clients) 2 when everything is running, I need to go put a power supply in my emc2 box in the shop. >What operating systems do you backup? All linux so far. >What is total amount of data you backup? Around 23GB ATM >Do you use dump or tar and why? Tar, because it can do subdirs. >How often do you do full backups? dumpcycle 4 >I am very interested in examples of tape-free implementations of > Amanda, where backups are done only to disk. Doing that here for something over a year now, using a 175GB partition on a 200GB disk, works fine. >What tape drives and what autochanger do you use? I wore out 4 Seagate 4586n's before I gave upon tape. >How large is your holding disk? About 25GB >How often do you restore files? (on average and what are thy typical >scenarios) Not often enough, whatever gets destroyed often gets a new version installed rather than pull from the backups. >Do you use compression and where (hardware, client or server)? Only on those dles that are responsive to compression, always server using gzip of course. >Do you use encryption and which one? No. My firewall is pretty tight. >How do you backup Windows? (if you have any) I just bought a lappy, but if it gets backed up, it will be only the linux I may put on it. Thats another day & project not quite within my radar just yet. >--------- >Please reply directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Thank you so much. >Dmitri Joukovski -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
