SnapImage wouldn't make a difference on the server - just on the client, 
unless, of course, you use some bloated file server as your NW server as well...

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Namens STANLEY R. HORWITZ
Verzonden: woensdag 17 februari 2010 13:11
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Onderwerp: Re: [Networker] Linux vs Windows

On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Freddy Enslin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> Was hoping somebody could shed some light. I have a client who wants to
> move his Networker 7.5.1 server from a Linux platform to a Windows
> platform and he is asking me to tell him what the benefits are.
> 
> He is currently running on Red Hat x86 (I assume RHEL 4) and wants to
> move to Win 2008 R2 x64 and Networker 7.6. I have always run Networker
> server on a Windows platform so I cannot really comment on the benefits
> going from Linux to Windows. 

Everyone has their opinion, but most importantly, what benefits does your 
client see in such a move? As for me, I couldn't imagine running at NetWorker 
server on Windows. Linux is free and tech support is inexpensive. It used to be 
that some functionality such as SnapImage wasn't available on Linux, but was in 
Windows, but I think they are pretty much on parity now in that area. In my 
data center, we see far more technical glitches with Windows than we do with 
our Linux servers.

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