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Re: [Networker] EMC/Legato-NetWorker vs Veritas-NetBackup
2005-08-12 18:49:14
It seems that most people -- excluding all those on this board, of
course -- I talk to look at me incredulously when I mention NetWorker
like either they've never heard of it, or it's some hoary software from
long ago. Even if I mention Legato, which technically is not the product
despite the long held public misnomer, I still get weird looks. Veritas
is all I ever hear about, everywhere I go. Perhaps that will change now
that it's EMC/Legato. However, in all those corporate sales seminars and
meetings it's heavily pushed, but Legato just seems to get blank looks.
Whenever I call vendors about tape libraries or for problems they always
ask or assume we're using Veritas. They get kinda quiet when I mention
NetWorker, almost as if they're trained to deal exclusively with Veritas
and have never had any training in NetWorker. Admittedly, I remember
recently seeing a list of current backup software products. There must
have been like 20 or more on the list. There were numerous ones I'd
never heard of, but I suspect many of them are for smaller environments
or perhaps PC Windows only? Who knows? Whatever happened to Tivoli?
I'd be curious to know a few things myself:
1. What can Veritas do that NetWorker can't?
2. Which product costs more?
3. I once heard that NetWorker was more configurable on a lower level.
Can anyone speak to that?
4. Doesn't NetBackup operate on a different principle than NetWorker,
like this concept of infinite incrementals or something?
5. For those of you who've used both products, which do you prefer and why?
I know you weren't asking this, but I like to think it's six of one half
a dozen of another, and neither is really going to offer you much
advantage over the other to make it worth switching horses mid stream,
especially given all the time invested in your learning. If the product
is delivering, why get the other and have to relearn it. I don't see any
reason until the company either stops delivering, or you're going into
an environment where the other software is already in place, but I'd
like to hear what others chime in with.
Ballinger, John M wrote:
What's the latest thinking on NetWorker vs NetBackup
especially in a large Enterprise with SAN fabrics.
We currently use NetWorker with 7 or 8 NetWorker Servers/DataZones and have a
two fabric SAN using all Brocade equipment and v7+ and 5 Adic Scalar 1000
libraries.
thanks - John
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From: Legato NetWorker discussion
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Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:16 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] L700e does not like LTO2
One of my customers just recently upgraded their old STK L700 library
to LTO2. They had STK come in and do the upgrade. STK updated the
L700 firmware and replaced all the old LTO-1 drives with LTO-2. We
changed the NetWorker (7xx) configuration accordingly and it's been
working fine since then.
----- Original Message -----
From: Olaf Zaplinski <o.zaplinski AT BROADNET DOT DE>
Date: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:23 am
Subject: [Networker] L700e does not like LTO2
Hi,
our Storagetek L700e does not like our new IBM LTO2 SCSI drive
(3580). I
wanted to replace one of our IBM LTO1 (3580) SCSI drives. Any
ideas how to
proceed? It is even not possible to flash a StorageTek approved
firmware on
it because the drive's firmware is too new. Can somebody help me
with an old
Firmware?
Any ideas appreciated!
Olaf
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