On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:26:34AM -0700, Shaw, Kevin wrote:
I'm looking at dropping Legato and purchasing Veritas for my backups. What are the pros and cons of Veritas? How is Veritas service and support? Is there a better enterprise backup solution?
the main drawback i see to veritas is that it really doesn't scale well to large environments. all of the databases are flat text files which is good and bad. good: it's pretty hard to corrupt a text file, writing scripts to manipulate the files is pretty easy. bad: searching takes forever, logs eat up large amount of disk space ( even compressed ), database cleaning can eat into your backup window.
maybe your environment isn't as large as mine[1], and you won't see any of this. i have several smaller masters, and they are all fairly happy.
it works well with my netapps most of the time, the only problem i have seen recently has been during duplication occasionally it will do it across the network, but other than that, it seems to behave itself.
[1] 340+ hosts , 100+ classes
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