At the place I used to work, we used IBM's ADSM (which later became 
TSM).  I wasn't much involved with the backups there, but the backup 
guys swore by it (and not AT it, like I occasionally have to do with 
NBU).  In my small web hosting business, I use Arkeia.  The price was 
right, although they have recently changed their licensing model to one 
where the price you pay is based on how much data is "protected" by 
their software.  Needless to say, I refuse to play that game, and will 
not be upgrading to newer versions...anyone from Arkeia listening out 
there?  NetBackup is too spendy and too heavyweight for my small 
business.  For someone who has lots of data to backup and deep pockets, 
NetBackup is a good choice.  I didn't have any input as to the choice of 
backup software on this site.

To answer your original question, if I couldn't have NetBackup, I'd 
probably go with Tivoli Storage Manager.

Richard Hellier wrote:

>       A recent thread sang the praises of BackupExec, so it made me wonder
>what other software people have experience with.  Maybe, you've recently
>spec'ed a new installation and had to go through a comparison exercise?
>
>Anyway, I'd very much appreciate hearing any success stories/war stories etc
>with other products.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Richard.
>
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