From kelleher@susq.com Fri Mar 5 10:24:36 1999 To: Jonah Yokubaitis barron@staff.texas.net cc: Tom Limoncelli tal@research.bell-labs.com, toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Future Newbie Needs Advice Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 11:00:17 -0500 From: "Jason D. Kelleher" kelleher@susq.com Sender: owner-toasters@mathworks.com Content-Length: 4312

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Mmmm....if only a native legato client :-)

Yuch.  Native dump format is so much friendlier to work with than
proprietary dump formats.  That plus NDMP is why we went with
BudTool.  I won't be an issue for the filers once there's a native
client, but wouldn't backup all my other hosts with it.  Anyone
know what's going to happen with this issue once BudTool is
absorbed by Legato?  I heard a rumor that BudTool v5.0 has already
been scrapped.  (Is there an Intelliguard mailing list?) If Legato
and their tape format is our only upgrade path, we'll start looking
at other products.

jason

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Jason D. Kelleher kelleher@susq.com Susquehanna Partners, G.P. 610.617.2721 (voice) 401 City Line Ave, Suite 220 610.617.2916 (fax) Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004-1122

Intelliguard now has OSA agents available for all supported BudTool media server platforms (SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX) that are clients making the platform NDMP compliant. This means that you can backup these architectures to NetApp direct attached tape drives, for example. The OSA agents are a new product and have been available since the middle of January 1999. I have installed and used them. When everything is NDMP compliant, you can backup up any NDMP compliant platform to any NDMP attached tape drive.

They come in 10 packs and are pretty cheap to purchase.

Randy Butler System Engineering Supervisor - Western Region PDC Solutions, Inc. E-mail: rbutler@pdc.com