8.1. backups are by their very nature restartable as well,
without duplicating backup data,
and they will be automatically restarted if necessary.

Regards
Juraj


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prashant R Gadikar [mailto:pgadikar AT IN.IBM DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:12 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Veritas Enterprise Netbackup 4.5
>
>
> Hi !!
> Well this matter has been discussed on numerous occasions on
> this mailing
> list. My first suggestion would be to quickly move on to the
> TSM 5.1 Ver.
> it has a lots of new features incorporated. The following
> points may be
> useful for you to probability convince your management to
> stay with TSM.
> TSM is off-course a market leader in its playing field and 90% of the
> fortune 500 companies use TSM to manage their business critical data.
> Veritas may be a market leader but their presence is mainly in the
> Workgroup environments.
>
> Please consider the following points.
>
> 1.Catalog information in TSM is stored in the RDBMS, hence there is no
> limit for the number of clients you backup using a single TSM server,
> imagine backing up  Millions  files and saving the
> information on a text
> based file..!! restore will take ages...!!
> 2. Hierarchal Storage Management, Managing the available disk space
> efficiently by moving the unused files for the disk to the
> Magnetic Media
> (Cheaper) Storage cost/MB is reduced.
> 3.Migration of data without depending on the type of media
> class used, TSM
> can migrate data shamelessly between different class of medias.
> 4.Progressive Incremental backup, no periodic full backups.
> 5. TSM uses database and recoverylog, which can be mirrored for high
> availability which can be used to alternate volume switching.
> 6.TSM each transaction undergoes a two phase commit, thus ensuring the
> perfect backup.
> 7. Varitas multiplexing is good for backup but what about the restore,
> restore time is considerably increased due to the splitting
> of the data.
> 8. TSM has the checkpoint for restartable restores, you can
> restart the
> failed restores form the point of failure.
> 9. Check on the versioning capabilities of Veritas, TSM
> provided a very
> useful versioning tool to control the number of versions for
> a particular
> file.
> 10.TSM is a Single product, thus there are no hassles of integrating
> different modules.
> 11.TSM is a Desktop to Datacentre scalable product.
> 12.TSM has number of Client Server communication protocols
> compared to the
> limited number of Veritas.
> 13. Tape expiry is at save set level, that means you cannot
> treat different
> files differently.
> 14. Additional modules for Mobile backup, TSM the modules is built-in.
>
> Want more please feel free to contact.
>
> Best Regards
> Prashant Gadikar
>
>
>
>
>
>                       Kelvin Tan
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>
>
>
> Hi Gurus
>
> At the moment we are using TSM 4.2 but the management is
> looking at Veritas
> Enterprise Netbackup and I have to convince them about
> staying put with
> TSM.  Has anybody move from TSM to Veritas Enterprise
> Netbackup 4.5 running
> on Unix??   Any advantages Veritas has over TSM?  If TSM is
> that good how
> come it does not dominate the backup market?  I have read the
> report of
> Veritas vs TSM but that is on Intel and related to version 3.
>
> Hope somebody can enlightened me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kelvin Tan
>
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