Hello Veritas Gurus ,
First of all I apologize because I am sure this quiestion has been asked
before . I am sure there are some on this list who have used Legato and
veritas before .
We are in a process of choosing backup software , Veritas netbackup /
Networker .
( We are using Backup Exec and Legato , we were two companies we had a
merger and now we want to select one central backup platform .)
I am using legato for that matter and I am very happy about it . But I would
like to hear from this particular mailing list about this comparison .
Certainly options for are Netbackup or Legato ( not backup exec because we
have unix ( HP/ Sun ) boxes )
As far Cost is concerned , Veritas is willing sacrifice backup exec license
cost and will charge us discounted price for license we have for Legato . We
can do a Math there to compare what legato has to offer .
I have read messages from Len Boyle Len.Boyle AT sas DOT com Fri, 24 Jan 2003
Deb deb AT tickleme.llnl DOT gov Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:48:02 -0800
After reading on mailing list archive on veritas , the mention thread
certainly gives nice points to some extent they are still true .
But I would like to hear from you again about this comparison since a year
and half has passed , new versions of both softwares have had changes . EMC
has taken over Legato .
I do not want to fire up this list again .
It appears to me that Veritas has more share in the market than networker .
I would like to the comparison based on following points .
1. Speed of backup ,
Netowrker 10 TB / Hour , Veritas 2 TB per hour .
2. faster recovery .
Same Legato is clear winner .
3. Ease in administration . ( Ability to restore from one client to another
from single screen )
Veritas looks to be much more user friendly , I have never used it but from
my experience from Legato , networker is not easy to recover ( You need to
goto client to do recover , you want to restore Client A data on client B
from one adminitration screen , I don't know if it is possible in Legato or
Veritas but looks to be possible in backup exec atleast .
4. Tracking versions . ( Legato had issues on this )
reveoring files with day -1 and day -2 . , this kind of operation interface
comparison .
also the client software version upgrade ease , Veritas can push client
software but for legato you need to do it manually .
5. backward version compatibility . ( Veritas had issues on this ) .
6. Modules limitations like ( With Exchange5.5 module for legato was not
able to retrieve single Email ) or Module features ( I am interested in
Notes , SQL 2000 , Sybase on HP , modules )
We had issue with exchange 5.5 hence we went on to arcserver for only that
reason .
7. DRC solution ( Networker has dependancy on Index server so as Catalogue
server correct me if I am wrong ) ( Cold standby networker solution is
available only on windows . )
To restore client data you need networker server / catalogue server live ( I
am not sure about netbackup ) . Where as in backup exec catalogue is stored
on client as well then you don't have dependancy on server if you have
direct access to tape storage from client .
8. SAN / NAS support . ( Which software works well with netapps or EMC
provided solutions )
I think Legato has or will have advantage over veritas on this .
9. Technical Support
10 Cost comparison . ( TCO )
11. Most well adopted platform for running master server / Networker Server
. and Reasons for it .
Both sales said unix version is more stable , but now a days win2003 server
is becoming more stable .
I know lot of people say Networker and veritas works well on Unix . but the
cost of license on unix is also high .
12. Tape cloning vs Vault
I read some slow performance issues with vault but cloning is also not very
fast . Please correct me I am wrong .
Any other advantages , products like Email Extender .
Suggestions / comments / tips / jokes :)
best regards,
- Rahul Parasnis
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