I know this is slightly off topic for this particular list.

We've been working with Legato on getting our yearly maintenance all wrapped 
up, and I found out that Commvault would be coming in within the next few weeks 
to give their speil on their Galaxy backup products, because apparently they 
are cheaper than Legato (I've heard 50% or more).

Apart from that, I'm intrigued at their feature set.  If anyone would be 
interested in knowing what I find out about their presentation, please let me 
know off-list.  And if anyone has any more information on Commvault (pros and 
cons), also send them my way off-list.  I'm interested in its support of remote 
sites with remote tape drives and performance in a heterogeneous network with 
Windows/Unix/Linux/Novell.

Our Legato installation is working well for us and it fits our needs.  But when 
it comes to cost, unfortunatly, sometimes that plays a bigger role in software 
than "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".


--
Craig Ruefenacht
UNIX Systems Administrator
USANA Health Sciences
http://www.usana.com


> I worked with Commvault many years ago (1996),  I can't imagine the product
> being anything like it was then (backup up to optiical disk, one full with
> incrementals after that, based on cpio).
>
> It won the "best backup software" award in the survey article in the
> September 05 Storage Magazine.  On the survey graph its almost off the
> scale for "product features"; beating out all other enterprise backup 
> products.
>
> Sounds like it warrants serious consideration.  
>
>
> Robert Maiello
> Pioneer Data Systems
>
>

>> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:28:28 +0200, Oscar Olsson <spam1 AT QBRANCH DOT SE> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Ed Skolnik wrote:
>>>
>>> I need to de-install the Legato 6.1 or 7.1 RMAN module for Oracle on HP UX,
>>> because IPG is convering to CommVault Galaxy. How do I do that?   Is as
>>> simple as HP package de-install?
>>
>> I had never heard of that product before, but after reading about it a
>> bit, it seems like it adresses some issues that Networker has, at least on
>> paper. Can you, or anyone else, provide a quick comparison on the
>> technical level? I'm interested in areas such as stability and
>> availability, how "solid" the product feels after working with it for a
>> while, any design flaws or other stupidness, that kind of stuff.
>> 
>> Also, how is the pricing and maintenance compared with networker?
>>
>> If anyone feels that it isn't of general interest or off-topic, please
>> reply off-list.
>>
>> //Oscar

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