I'm a consultant and I've installed it recently so people are still buying
it and installing it. The customer seemed happy. It does what it's
advertized to do - backs up high density file systems faster than regular
NetWorker can with low impact on the CPU. You just have to be willing to put
up with a few hurdles such as the requirement for a dedicated cache lun
(never fails to catch customers by surprise even though we tell them this
before we go on site) and using NDMP for hosted-file-system backups. I don't
recommend it unless you really need it, but if you really need it, it's nice
to have.

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of John Hope-Bailie
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:23 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] SnapImage

Hi,

 

I am looking for comments from anybody who is currently using SnapImage.

I have scanned my archive of this user group and most of the SnapImage posts
are all quite old.

Several have mentioned that it is still supported, but the overall
impression is that it is not widely used.

We are about to spend a whole lot of time and effort on SnapImage in a
Windows server environment.

 

I would really welcome a quick comment from anyone who is currently using
SnapImage with:-

 

Client O/S and version

NW version

SnapImage version

Size of data being backed up by SnapImage.

Overall rating of SnapImage     Poor / Acceptable /  Good

 

Many thanks for any responses.

 

John Hope-Bailie

johnhb AT channeldata.co DOT za



 


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