I concur with both of the previous posts. When you get to the Enterprise
level unless you can clearly justify the costs both in money and time,
unless what you have is clearly not working stick with you have and
know.

At one point in time I was so frustrated with license renewal I was
thinking of switching but I could not justify it in my own mind because
it was not a license problem nor even an EMC (Legato at the time)
problem but a third party vendor problem which EMC sorted out.

Others may have had other problems but I have always had positive
experiences with Support and Customer service (knock on wood). 



Dana

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Shyam Hegde
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 11:39 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Switch

Hello Brett,

If your backup server is on UNIX, it is best to be with NetWorker.
Most of the time in my experience, backup failures were because of
client side issues, Network or DNS related problems. I backup several
hundred windows clients on to NetWorker server with out any issues. I
have not tried
(dared!) 7.3.x so far. We are still on 7.0 and 7.2.

Best of luck!

Regards
Shyam

On 7/17/06, Jason Doyle <Jason.Doyle AT sun DOT com> wrote:
>
> Brett,
>
> You'd be amazed to find out how many companies are in the same boat.
> Data/Tape/Backup consolidation is huge right now.
>
> Networker and NetBackup are both enterprise class software packages 
> and if you were starting from scratch and comparing 
> feature-for-feature on what you need, there won't be much difference.

> However, NetBackup will likely be more expensive ... when you're in 
> Gartner's magic quadrant you've the luxury of asking more $$ for your
products.
>
> Its been my experience that you should stick with what you know.  You 
> already have a significant investment in software licenses and more 
> importantly, you're already trained.  If your Networker admins are not

> familiar with Windows backups or other features of Networker, consider

> investing your money on training or professional services.
>
> -Jason
>
> Brett Monroe wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I work in a data center that's, for the last 5 years, had a backup 
> > "strategy" of attaching a tape drive to every server and running 
> > fulls nightly.  We now have hundreds of servers (both Wintel and Sun
> > Solaris) and
> > have a full time operations staff to do, among other things, 
> > managing tapes.  Recently, upper management had decided to spring 
> > for a tape library (ST SL500) to backup everything.  We have been 
> > using Networker to backup our Sun servers and Backup Exec to backup 
> > our Wintel servers.  We are now asking ourselves "do we want to 
> > stick with Networker to backup everyone or go with another backup 
> > software solution?"  As you can probably guess, the
> "other
> > backup solution" is NetBackup 6.0.  Most of our talent is with 
> > Networker but we've had a lot of frustrations with the software as 
> > well (as I'm sure most of you have had as well).  My question for 
> > you is this:
> >
> > Given the opportunity, would you migrate away from Networker to 
> > NetBackup?
> > Or would I be just be trading one headache for another?
> >
> > Thanks
> > --Brett
> >
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