Re: [Networker] Other back-up products besides NetWorker

At 15:35 19.12.2008, you wrote:

I'm surprised such an innocent looking question generated such aheated discussion. I seems clear there's a lot of grief out therethat in the past NetWorker has not received the R&D investment itdeserves. Interesting as it was, not much of it goes to answer theoriginal question. ... is there a similar but less costly productlike NetWorker out there. To sum up the more relevant responses itseems to me the following should be taken into account:
Investigate the likes of NetBackup, CommVault, HP DataProtector, IBMTivoli Storage Manager, as well as having a closer look at OpenSource Software like Amanda/Zmanda (although I personally feel thatthis product falls well short of a comprehensive OS client &application support list).

Just to round things out before someone shuts this thread down fornot being enough about NetWorker.. ;-)

If an open-source NetWorker substitute is being sought, Bacula(www.bacula.org) is a lot closer to NetWorker in architecture thanAmanda since it supports such features as media pools, disk volumes,disk staging, etc., There's the usual trade-offs vs. commercialsoftware but, on the whole, the Bacula project seems to be makinggreat strides (a Windows client that supports VSS is available and aMicrosoft Exchange plugin was recently announced which seems to be afirst for open-source backup). For people looking to get off theenterprise backup license treadmill, there are certainly alternativesout there. Curtis Preston's book covers several including Amanda(www.amanda.org), Bacula (www.bacula.org), and BackupPC(backuppc.sourceforge.net).


Best regards,

Peter Buschman

      - what platform you wish to run the server on
      - what backup hardware you wish to use
      - what OSes are going to be backed up
      - what applications are going to be backed up
- The level of customization available via scripting & theuse of cli toolsets
        - Ease of Backup Server Recovery
        - Purchase cost of product & various backup licenses
        - Cost of ongoing vendor support
- Cost of maintaining long-term networker archives and/ormigrating archives to new backup product tape format- Skill/experience of local sys admin & cost/time to becomefamiliar with new backup product
Kind Regards,
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Oscar Olsson
Sent: 19 December 2008 12:18
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Subject: Re: [Networker] Other back-up products besides NetWorker

On 2008-12-18 19:58, Joe N. Wallace revealed:

JNW> One quiestion I think is relevant here:
JNW>
JNW> Why choose EMC Networker?
JNW>
JNW> Where is Networker stronger thant the competetors mentioned (Netbackup,
JNW> Commvault, Dataprotector, TSM)

The command-line tools and the ability to script stuff. Its probably a
good choice for small environments where you have a sysadmin who uses bc
instad of excel and doesn't mind compiling his own kernel.

JNW> Where are the weak sides of Networker?

Pretty much everything else.

//Oscar
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