Hello Brett,

If your backup server is on UNIX, it is best to be with NetWorker.
Most of the time in my experience, backup failures were because of client
side issues, Network or DNS related problems. I backup several hundred
windows clients on to NetWorker server with out any issues. I have not tried
(dared!) 7.3.x so far. We are still on 7.0 and 7.2.

Best of luck!

Regards
Shyam

On 7/17/06, Jason Doyle <Jason.Doyle AT sun DOT com> wrote:

Brett,

You'd be amazed to find out how many companies are in the same boat.
Data/Tape/Backup consolidation is huge right now.

Networker and NetBackup are both enterprise class software packages and
if you were starting from scratch and comparing feature-for-feature on
what you need, there won't be much difference.  However, NetBackup will
likely be more expensive ... when you're in Gartner's magic quadrant
you've the luxury of asking more $$ for your products.

Its been my experience that you should stick with what you know.  You
already have a significant investment in software licenses and more
importantly, you're already trained.  If your Networker admins are not
familiar with Windows backups or other features of Networker, consider
investing your money on training or professional services.

-Jason

Brett Monroe wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I work in a data center that's, for the last 5 years, had a backup
> "strategy" of attaching a tape drive to every server and running fulls
> nightly.  We now have hundreds of servers (both Wintel and Sun
> Solaris) and
> have a full time operations staff to do, among other things, managing
> tapes.  Recently, upper management had decided to spring for a tape
> library
> (ST SL500) to backup everything.  We have been using Networker to
> backup our
> Sun servers and Backup Exec to backup our Wintel servers.  We are now
> asking
> ourselves "do we want to stick with Networker to backup everyone or go
> with
> another backup software solution?"  As you can probably guess, the
"other
> backup solution" is NetBackup 6.0.  Most of our talent is with
> Networker but
> we've had a lot of frustrations with the software as well (as I'm sure
> most
> of you have had as well).  My question for you is this:
>
> Given the opportunity, would you migrate away from Networker to
> NetBackup?
> Or would I be just be trading one headache for another?
>
> Thanks
> --Brett
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