On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Lisa Paton wrote:
We have been a Budtool customer in the past. I run a Sun shop with 2 F740's as the main file servers. I've got ~200 Sun workstations ~50 of which are backed up centrally. We currently have 2 DLT 4700 stackers and several desktop DLT drives that are used for backup. We liked Budtool because of the price, the non-proprietary backup format, and the easy to use interface. I hadn't yet purchased the NDMP module for Budtool when I learned of the Legato buy out. At that point I decided to look elsewhere for backup software. I've never been a fan of Legato, and assumed (correctly) that they'd take the NDMP support from Budtool and drop the rest.
Thanks for the detailed review. It sounds like we're in the same boat - 2 filers, 2 juke boxes and many sun boxes (we had 2 4700 drives but are waiting for the Overland Data 810's [have 1 of 2]). Currently, we are backing up with budtool but are using snapshots, not NDMP.
Have you heard definitely that Legato is going to discard Budtool? I know it's been rumored... I share your concern for standard tar backups - one always have to consider worse case scenario (i.e. backup server dies). That's been my fear about having to switch over to Legato (that and if they're going to charge to convert budtool users to legato).
Also, from what I gather the previous admin here went with snapshot backups instead of NDMP because it used to be that there was problems with the robustness of NDMP. I haven't been keeping up on things as good as I should, but is it now that you can backup a netapp box and restore it on a different file system? For instance, we use Clearcase and store vobs on a netapp. If there was a file from a destroyed VOB we needed to recover, could we just restore the one file to a Solaris file system or would we have to restore the whole VOB to a netapp filer?
----------- Jay Orr Systems Administrator Fujitsu Nexion Inc. St. Louis, MO