> 
> > Well, until last week they did not support DAR.  This is an
indication
> > of their commitment to NDMP (or lack of) since every other major
backup
> > vendor had supported DAR over a year ago.  And dynamic drive sharing
for
> > NDMP?  Don't look for that for another year even though NetVault
from
> > Backbone had it a year ago as well.
> >
> > For some reason, Veritas sees themselves as a competitor of NetApp
even
> > though their NAS product is light years behind a filer.
> 
> Good info.  Thanks for sharing your viewpoint on this.  I'm sure it
will
> figure into how we manage the NDMP side of things.   From what I have
seen
> in
> the industry, there are no pretty NDMP solutions - and Legato has many
of
> its
> own problems in this area, although it's been released since some time
> last
> year (DAR and DDS).

There is one pretty NDMP solution from BakBone and another from
Workstation Solutions.  Both have had DDS and DAR for quite some time.
I know NetApp has tested BakBone in their lab and found it to be
everything it is advertised as.

> 
> > The scripting in NBU is pretty decent so you will win on that front.
> > The client push only works for the same platform as the master.  So
in a
> > mixed environment you will still visit the clients that are a
differing
> > platform than the master.
> 
> So, to clarify - you're saying that I cannot push out Windoze client
> updates
> from a Sun "master?"  What about using a Windoze machine (does it have
to
> be a
> master?) to update other Windoze boxes?
> 
> We do not want to support more than one kind of backup server, a
Windows
> box
> would not be a server in our environment.

That is correct.  You would need a Windows master to push client
software to Windows machines, a regular Windoze machine won't do it.

~JK