It’s time again for the NetWorker Usage Survey. There’s just 16 questions in this survey (one more than the previous one), but it should hopefully still take less than 10 minutes to complete – even less than 5 if you’re well in touch with backups at your company!
When you complete the survey, you can optionally supply an email address. Your survey results will always be considered anonymous – however, if you do supply your email address I’ll take it as approval that I can contact you to ask you questions about your responses.
Note: I 100% promise that I will not use any supplied email addresses for anything other than the above. And again, if you don’t want to be contacted at all, please leave your email address blank.
I’m going to run the survey from today through 31 January 2013 – a bit longer than I have in the past, but I want to give more time for responses over the holiday season.
The survey has now closed. Results will be posted early February.
(NB: I am aware MaxDB has a potted history in terms of whether or not is open source. Given its strong ties up until 2007 with MySQL and continuing availability for free use, I’m categorising it with MySQL for the purposes of this survey.)
Finally I can give positive answer on the last question.
In this year I’ve changed employer and began work as backup administrator.
Thanks for your book! It really helps!
we have Tru64 on some backup servers as well.
I’ve added Tru64 to the server list (I admit I’d removed it because I thought it was now old enough in NetWorker support that no-one would still be using it). No need to fill in a new survey – I’ll add one Tru64 score to the server OS list at tallying time.
Thanks 🙂
Would be interesting to see how many Networker users that use tape
Hi Niels,
I’ve always thought this was implicitly covered in asking how many sites are using any form of backup to disk – but yes, I guess a specific question around tape usage would be beneficial. I’ll note to add it to the next survey, thanks.
Cheers.
was a dedicated backup administrator for the 4 years.
didn’t see any question coming from the DPA, part..
I try to keep the survey short; DPA is a big enough product that it would need multiple questions, which wouldn’t help with keeping the survey at a minimum number of questions.