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Re: [Networker] SLAs and backup cost estimates

2008-05-15 09:50:15
Subject: Re: [Networker] SLAs and backup cost estimates
From: Fazil Saiyed <Fazil.Saiyed AT ANIXTER DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:45:49 -0500
Hello,
Care to share your success, what have you done differently, tape 
management, media rotation, scheduling, procedures, implementation, 
hardware to get where you are now.
There is growing dissatisfaction  among other networker admins in regards 
to Networkers high hands on approach, scripting, deficiencies in media 
management, AD restore capabilities compared to new backup software, bare 
metal restores,cloning,staging,device management, reporting etc.
Perhaps the forum can consider having resident expert in each major area 
i,e cloning, san & publishing relevant solution that list members can draw 
upon at will, i.e NDMP backups, Cloning, sricipting.
This are just the thoughts, i mean i am sure plenty of admins may feel 
Networker is up to the task,but the questions still remains is it ?



Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> 
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[Networker] SLAs and backup cost estimates






The satisfaction here at Temple with our NetWorker backups is very 
high, to the point where I receive more and more requests to back up 
servers. This has prompted management to set up an SLA for each 
client's backups, plus we need a better model of estimating the cost 
of backing up individual clients.

I am wondering what other sites do for their SLAs and how you estimate 
backups and charge for them. I figure the two most important factors 
to consider are the recovery time objective and the amount of data 
involved.

Any comments or information will be appreciated.

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