On Thu, 4 May 2000, Michael Salmon wrote:
"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?
I think that the recent discussion about problems with NBU and DOT/Java/NDMP should raise some alarms about Veritas. Mind you I would never ever suggest that anyone buy Legato's NetApp clientpack. We use networker via a Sun U220R and NFS, and I must say that when it works it works well but expect to spend much too much time baby sitting networker. The down side is that cifs acls cannot be saved that way so I guess that in the future we will need to use a november tango system.
Quick Restore has received a lot of praise, unfortunately for us they only support SCSI robots, but they may also be affected if the NDMP Java classes have problems.
Oh, I can assure you that QR is affected by the NDMP problem !-).
However, I will say that we have gotten good technical support from them to handle my client's unusal requirements (lots of small files) which, prior to a recent patch, took too long to index the backups and took an inordinate amount of space (15Gb index file for a 1Tb NetApp, and we haven't even had it for the maximum archive age of a year).
I like their product, but I only wish is had more command-line information, as I look at the status from home and don't have good X forwarding capability.x
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