Hi All,

I've lurked for a long time but never replied so if I'm not doing it correctly (reply all) someone please correct me. This list has been a great resource for me. Thanks.

I've been using CommVault for a long time, 4+ years for NDMP against two 3020's. Using this along with SnapManager for SQL and snap-shots to a 2050 in DR has been proven rock solid, no issues at all, that is besides constantly remembering these are getting old and need replacement.

If you have any Commvault specific questions I'll try to help. We're at Version 8 I believe. I use NetApp De-Dupe, not Commvault and it has not been an issue thankfully as we are so short on disk that without dedupe some volumes would be full :(

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-----Original Message----- From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Bryer Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 12:56 PM To: Steffen Knauf Cc: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: Experience with Backup Software using NDMP

We've been using NetBackup for around 12 years now (replacing BudTool). We've moved from going direct to tape, to going to disk now. We also make use of SnapVault, but there is no tape involved there. If you have any specific questions around NetBackup feel free to contact me.

Lately (the past half year or so), a lot of different people have been trying to push CommVault to me. Hopefully there is someone here with experience who can speak to that product.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Steffen Knauf" sknauf@chipxonio.de To: toasters@teaparty.net Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 8:52:12 AM Subject: Experience with Backup Software using NDMP

Hi Toasters,

we consider to buy a new Backup Software and i don't know whats the best Software. Now, we are using Netvault (vian ndmp)but it don't works very well (e.g. problems with deduplication.....).

We backup ~ 10 TB via NDMP to a LTO 5 Tapelibrary. Perhaps someone have experience with other Backup Software. Netvault sucks generally ;(

greets

Steffen

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On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, John Stoffel wrote:

As for Bacula, I use it at home, but not with NDMP, and the open source community edition doesn't support NDMP that I'm aware of. But I don't have a toaster at home to play with.

sadly, i think you're right about that. it's kind of Nicholas Bernstein to point out that NDMP support comes as part of "bacula enterprise edition", but that's the commercial variant of bacula, not the free-software version.

I should add we dump to a Scalar 50 as well as disk (mostly disk) with CommVault. It really has been awesome, no problems at all. I will add that it takes a lot of getting used to as there is an enormous amount of controls in the system to ensure retention etc. IT MAKES YOU KEEP STUFF if it thinks you screwed up.

If you’re used to something else you’ll hate it at first but once it’s dialed in, it’s great. At least it is here but it took a lot of getting used to as I’ve used and was comfortable with all the other big players. In this case it was like starting all over again. It’s complicated enough that I don’t feel comfortable delegating its management out to others unless they have spent time with it.

Ps. No I’m not on CommVault payroll. In fact I just paid support… it’s not that bad at all. (Hope Glenn doesn’t read this part..)

From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Scott Classen Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 2:20 PM To: Steffen Knauf Cc: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: Experience with Backup Software using NDMP

I'm using Syncsort BEX to do NDMP backups to a Spectralogic LTO4 library and have been quite satisfied with it. I haven't used other software so can't really give you my opinion on how it would compare. Cheers, Scott

On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:52 AM, "Steffen Knauf" <sknauf@chipxonio.demailto:sknauf@chipxonio.de> wrote: Hi Toasters,

we consider to buy a new Backup Software and i don't know whats the best Software. Now, we are using Netvault (vian ndmp)but it don't works very well (e.g. problems with deduplication.....). We backup ~ 10 TB via NDMP to a LTO 5 Tapelibrary. Perhaps someone have experience with other Backup Software. Netvault sucks generally ;(

greets

Steffen

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