Re: [Veritas-bu] Legato vs. NetBackup

I think what he meant is, in a general sense, you're going to be locked in to pretty much any vendor, not just Symantec/NBU, due to how it operates with the library and tape media. Not very many installed solutions will allow sharing the library, and they definitely won't allow you to share media or servers. So at a minimum you'll have to buy new tapes and servers, plus the software costs. Hence, locked in.

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Steve Quan <sq01 AT yorku DOT ca>
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10/01/2008 03:53 PM

To	Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>
cc	veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu, "BeDour, Wayne" <WBedour AT lear DOT com>
Subject	Re: [Veritas-bu] Legato vs. NetBackup

I'm surprised about the "locked in" comment. Can you explain ? We were a Legato NetWorker shop that was persuaded to go the Veritas NetBackup route because of their pricing. Seems that they've gotten more expensive and our experience since NetBackup 6.0 didn't help either. Other backup vendors are starting to get more attention ... /Steve --- On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:16 PM, BeDour, Wayne <WBedour AT lear DOT com> wrote: > >> EMC has grabbed my managers ear and wants to demo Legato. We've been >> running NetBackup since 3.4 and I'm in no hurry to change. Anyone out there >> with any Legato vs. NetBackup thoughts? >> > > Ask your manager if he's willing to purchase a new robot, all new backup > servers, and licenses for all of your clients, and discard all of your old > backup tapes. > > Unless NetBackup is really, really broken for you, you're kind of locked in. > > > .../Ed > > Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE > ewilts AT ewilts DOT org > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

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