Re: [Veritas-bu] Amount of data
2007-09-20 08:34:51
>Don’t completely dismiss or accept a product just based
on what others have said – test it yourself.
One reason to test yourself is that the products are constantly
changing (and hopefully improving). When I did my head-to-head
testing, it was over 3 years ago. Although one product won handily at the
time, that doesn’t mean that it still will – there’s no way
for me to know how well it will work in my environment without doing the tests
again and I have no reason to do so.
When you evaluate the products, you should also look at the
vendor’s relationship with Symantec and how fast each responds to new
releases. In fact, now would be a good time to ask whether they support
NetBackup 6.5 or not, even if you’re not at 6.5 yet. You want to be
assured that they’ll support the new releases before you’re ready
to upgrade to them.
Some products take different approaches than others so they’ll
work better in some environments than others. Make sure that the product
you buy is the right fit for you and not necessarily for somebody else.
…/Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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From: Curtis Preston
[mailto:cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:19 PM
To: Ed Wilts; Pillapalem, Smitha; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Amount of data
The first thing I would say is to use bpimagelist with the
appropriate flags. It goes as far back as you have images, and can be
told to list particular types of backups. One of the fields is size.
I agree that if you want historical reporting, it’s easiest
if you get a commercial reporting product. There are a number of such
products on the market, and they offer some really good functionality
that’s really hard to get otherwise. The following is a listing of
them, alphabetical by product name. (I keep a directory of them and a
bunch of other backup-related products at http://www.backupcentral.com/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Category:Backup_Software_Directories
.)
www.tek-tools.com
(BackupProfiler)
www.agite.com (Backup Visual)
www.bocada.com
(Bocada)
www.servergraph.com
(Servergraph)
www.aptare.com
(Storage Console)
www.symantec.com (The new
Veritas Backup Reporter, not to be confused with NOM.)
www.wysdm.com (WysDM for
Backups, also resold by EMC)
I would suggest that you decide what you want out of a reporting
product first, then take a look at all of these to see which one best fit your
needs. Feel free to search the Backup Central forums ( http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2
) for these product names to see what others have said over time. Take
all comments with a grain of salt; however, there are a few shills out
there. Don’t completely dismiss or accept a product just based on
what others have said – test it yourself.
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W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:46 PM
To: 'Pillapalem, Smitha'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Amount of data
If you want history for the last few days, it’s not that
tough. If you want long-term history, you’ll need a reporting
product. NOM is free although limited. Commercial products like
Aptare’s StorageConsole are far more featured and can give you relatively
instant reports over long periods – just today I was generating weekly
totals for the last year and the reports were popping up in seconds and we run
a lot of backup jobs every day.
…/Ed
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Amount of data
How do I get the information on amount of data getting backed up in
my current environment for both weekly fulls and daily incremental -
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