Gee, I'd love to see that white paper, Dave....

David Hendrix wrote:

> Laz and others make good points about Networker, and Silos.
>
> Networker has probably the most expansive device and software platform
>
> support of the leading Storage Management products.
>
> If you are looking to replace ADSM (a unique paradigm) with something
> else, look at other products in addition to Legato.  They have had a
> notoriously poor user/product support rep and as Greg mentioned,
> licensing can become a nightmare - heaven forbid your server loses
> track
> of the date momentarily, you'll lose your licenses.
>
> GEMS sounds great but I haven't experienced it.  Even now, I am
> finishing a white paper review of Omniback II, ADSM, Networker,
> Alexandria, and Netbackup.  Networker has many strengths, but I don't
> think it is best of breed for master/slave architectures.
>
> For all the warts of Omniback II, checkout their integration with EMCs
>
> Symetrix ICDA (SRDF and Timefinder).  Cool stuff.  Makes backup of
> large
> DBs feasible.  Our largest, 2.3TB, takes 11 hours with 12 3590s on a
> Sun
> E10K using Alexandria.  More hardware reduces the window, but
> something
> like EMCs stuff makes life much much easier.
>
> Just my thoughts...
>
> David Hendrix
> dmhendri AT fedex DOT com
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