Folks,
Dunno if it's top secret, or what, but this week I innocently (hah!) asked Legato about transferring my BudTool license to a new NetApp that may be coming in soon. Their website says host transfers are free, so what the heck?
Anyway, instead of getting an answer, I got directed to my local Legato salesperson, who informed me that they've finally come to their senses and are offering a one-for-one exchange to replace our BudTool products with equivalent NetWorker products, at no cost other than putting it all back on tech-support contract.
I checked, and it's not 1-April-2001. Maybe by the Mayan calendar?
By my investigation so far, NetWorker-6.1 claims it will do everything our BudTool-4.6.1 does, with the exception of:
(1) NDMP backup to non-NetApp tape drive. An extra-cost SnapImage option turns your Networker tape host into an NDMP tape server to provide this functionality. OK, so it's not quite 1-for-1.
(2) Cloning NDMP tapes. They say that'll be along soon (I forgot to ask if I could do that with SnapImage). But one can do a second backup to offsite media to partially work around this limitation.
I'm still not wild about Networker, but "Free is a very good price." Well, not counting the initial $30k investment in BudTool, anyway.
So, has anyone else heard about this? I could find no mention of it (nor any previous transition programs) on their website.
Regards,