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? Thanks in advance.
On Tue, 2 May 2000, 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 prefer Veritas personally. The UI is fairly intuitive, and if you're centralizing your backup strategy you have a lot of whistles and bells (database connectivity, NT backup, etc. etc.).
I've had to do a number of restores with it, and that's relatively painless. You may wish to look at using it's "True Image" features.
-marc
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
-s
"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.
/Michael
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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