Having experience on both ... I cant really recommend one over the other -
but -
Your backup methodology is different (grandfather, father, son (legato) vs
"always incremental") between the two. So it depends on how your approach to
restores are.
I have run some tests,
With TSM our (test) backup seems to go faster (always less to backup on a
daily basis), but you have to have a rather large library, and you backup is
server is quite busy during the day doing tape consolidations, and space
reclamation etc etc ... Personal experience / opinion To do restores you
need to
Legato on the other hand (our preference) is to do a full backup every now
and then and to ten treat those tapes as "gold". This has saved my butt
numerous times (instead of having a range of incremental tapes to restore
from).
No I am sure many TSM punters would come up with a range of benefits to use
their product (and vice versa).
TSM has a whole bundle of releases and fixes and patch versions etc, which
on the one hand is handy - as problem you might not have (or will experience
in future) get solved. I prefer Legato's approach of waiting "longer" and
having more "stable" releases ... ect etc, yes I know that has its own can
of worm,s as regular list reader will know this has been ranted about
recently (not having easy access to fixes, bug patches etc).
I suppose in the end it comes down to cost, what product (hardware vendor)
your company prefers, and who in your country / region you get better
support from..... personally I prefer Legato, but that has probably got more
to do with the fact that I actually know what goes on in Legato ... ;p
Regards,
Riaan
-----Original Message-----
From: Librado Pamintuan [mailto:LPAMINTU AT REGINA DOT CA]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:18 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] TSM Vs. Legato
Based on experience also, one important criteria when selecting a backup
software is;
The backup software should have the client software of your various
server O/S and their commitment to development & research for
newer/enhanced versions.
In our environment, our backup server O/S is Unix-AIX and the clients
are a mixture of Unix-AIX, NetWare, Windows2000/NT and Linux, Legato
Networker is able to backup all of these platform.
regards,
Librado
>>> Kenneth.Larsen AT STERIA DOT DK 02/23/04 02:56pm >>>
I don't know anything about TSM but Legato and veritas is priced
around
the same. There are lots of other solutions out there. HP
dataprotector,
which is very cheap, Bakbone which is also cheap.
And there are alot of internet backup stores around too, we are
starting
up a test of internet backup soon.
But with regards to functionality I can't imagine there is much
difference
between legato, veritas and TSM, or HP, for that matter.
So if u are looking for something to start with, I suggest you look at
economy first.
If u can't get the money for the top products you will have to go with
other cheaper vendors. Unfortuante but true.
But in these days it all boils down to money, there is no reason to
after
TSM, Legato, Veritas if u know u can't get any extra funding when u
need
something new.
With regards to veritas following up I had quite the opposite
experience
they were after me from the moment I accepted to look at veritas as a
replacement for legato.
We didn't make the change though.
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Arun Sondhi <asondhi AT RA.ROCKWELL DOT COM>
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23-02-2004 20:32
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Subject: Re: [Networker] TSM Vs. Legato
Is price the only differentiater between Legato and others?
Sincerely,
Arun Sondhi
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Librado Pamintuan <LPAMINTU AT REGINA DOT CA>
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02/23/2004 01:26 PM
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Librado
Pamintuan
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
cc:
Subject: Re: [Networker] TSM Vs. Legato
Hello all,
Both TSM (which is a division of IBM) and Veritas are expensive but
the
features and funtionalities are almost the same compared to Legato
Networker.
One more comment on Veritas, their marketing or sales is quick but no
support from vendors. When Legato announced their union with EMC, we
or
lots of Legato customer received a letter from Veritas for a 'Free
Storage Evaluation' worth $ 9,000.00 plus a good discount if you
migrate
to Veritas. We accepted the offer (July 2003) and up to January 2004
we
haven't heard from them.
I called their main office and somebody sent me an evaluation CD after
2 weeks, but the local vendor who holds the license key, never follows
up.
Librado Pamintuan
Technical Support Analyst II
Information Systems Dep.
Operations Group
City of Regina
Phone: (306) 777-7573
General Fax: (306) 777-6804
eFax: (306) 546-6002
eMail: lpamintu AT regina DOT ca
>>> asondhi AT RA.ROCKWELL DOT COM 02/23/04 12:45pm >>>
Has anyone done a feature/benefit comparison of backup softwares from
different vendors?
I am interested in Legato vs. TSM Vs. Veritas
Sincerely,
Arun Sondhi
CCNP,CCDP
Ph: +1 414.382.0206
Pager: +1 414 341 8650
Extn: 20206
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