Re: [Veritas-bu] Legato vs. NetBackup

I agree :) and I guess we're lucky because our maximum backup retpd is 2months (data requiring longer periods are done using more genericutilities like dump and tar). When we switched, we ran on new equipment inparallel with the old (system) until the old media expired.

Being "locked in" to a particular vendor doesn't have a nice feeling(IMHO) especially considering what other users are experiencing with thelatest releases etc (my experience was with NBU6.0 up to MP4), and thevendor's ability to make easier pricing changes.


/Steve
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Rusty.Major AT sungard DOT com wrote:

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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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
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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

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