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From what I saw at EMC World 2008, it wants to do all of your backups for
a subset of systems (ie, it doesn't work without an Avamar agent on the client),
rather than just be a dedupe conduit to storage. They do have plans to
incorporate it into NetWorker, and it is possible to feed data to an Avamar
environment from NetWorker (using it as whatever the NW lingo for a storage unit
is; escapes me at the moment), but there didn't seem to be any real way to
incorporate it into a NetBackup (you know, the topic of this mailing list
;^>) environment directly. The GUI's a bit young, fragile, and inconsistent,
but the underlying engine (and maybe the CLI: that wasn't included in the
playtime at EMC World, except by reference when I started asking the techs a few
questions about how to do this or that task) seems to be very powerful and well
thought-out.
Especially if you
have both a decent amount of systems and storage in a central location AND a
bunch of remote sites, it may make sense to do the former with a traditional
backup product and the latter with something like Avamar, so long as you're
comfortable maintaining the separate environments and your ops staff can handle
figuring out from which system a given restore needs to
come.
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group
Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup &
Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
I’m curious if any of you have tried out EMC’s Avamar dedup
engine?
We had a meeting with EMC recently and what they described
looked interesting. So, it had me curious what real users get out of it or what
those opinions may be.
~ Robin
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