>From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:stapleton AT BERBEE DOT COM]
>>Remind your NT and Exchange people that Veritas ignores Microsoft's APIs
>>and uses its own. The upshot is that anytime an NT or Exchange box gets
>>a hotfix or service pack installed, they run the risk that Veritas won't
>>work afterward. I've also got one customer who won't touch Veritas
>>because of what it does to local Outlook mailboxes.
> 
fx [François-Xavier Peretmere] wrote:
>please no FUD. our Exchange backup solution, whether the Backup.Exec or
>NetBackup, is certified by Microsoft and has passed the Microsoft BackOffice,
>Windows 2000 Server & Advanced Server certification tests. it uses the
>Microsoft Exchange backup API, introduced with Ms Exchange 5.0.

No FUD, just fact. I have more than one customer either refusing to
consider Netbackup because of Exchange/Outlook data file corruption, or
moving to TSM from Netbackup for the same reasons.

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)