Re: Veritas Enterprise Netbackup 4.5

... and,
1. If you review the Veritas web-site, you'll find their acknowledgement
that they sacrifice "some" restore performance in order to make backups
faster!  Why do I want that???

2.  I though it's Legato that "gives away" their product -- or, should I
say, does private-branding of NetWorker for many competing vendors' Unix
variants; seems like a good business model if (a) you have the support staff
to handle the calls responding to bug reports (they don't); and (b) you can
keep the executives from robbing the piggy bank... was that what they got
caught doing?

CA's product is not much better;  it still seems to "croak" when its
database gets too large, still requires alot of manually "managing" the tape
pools,etc.

So much for wanting to support all-things-Storage-Management... I will stay
with TSM, and focus on staying current with the myriad changes being
introduced twice a year (not to mention features that still get shipped in
the almost-weekly stream of maintenance/patch releases).


Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
San Jose, Ca
(408) 257-3037
mailto:don_france AT att DOT net

Professional Association of Contract Employees
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
William Rosette
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 9:25 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Veritas Enterprise Netbackup 4.5


I would think the real issue is the Restore.  Who can get the data back the
fastest, most complete, and has no trouble with old or new data.  I would
like to see Veritas on the backup/restore end and TSM on the ADMIN end.

Thank You,
Bill Rosette
Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International
WWJD


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1.  Not 100% sure, but Veritas "dominates the market" because they give it
away, right?
I mean, don't they bundle it with Solaris or some other OS, so when they
count their installed base, they count all the Sun boxes whether people are
using it on those boxes or not?

Hope I'm not just disseminating rumor...

2. No other backup product is as robust and well-designed as TSM.  But the
features and efficient use of resources make it complex, so some people may
prefer simplicity and the fun point-and-click interface that come with
Veritas.

3. On a day-one comparison, Veritas does perform better than TSM, because
they BOTH have to do a full backup on day one.  But after a week or a month
has passed, TSM's efficiencies come to light.

TSM resellers have access to a lot of competitive whitepapers - ask your
TSM
reseller to dig into the Tivoli site for you.

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Lead Architect, Servergraph
www.servergraph.com <http://www.servergraph.com>
859-253-8000 ofc
425-988-8478 fax