I'm surprised such an innocent looking question generated such a heated 
discussion. I seems clear there's a lot of grief out there that in the past 
NetWorker has not received the R&D investment it deserves. Interesting as it 
was, not much of it goes to answer the original question. ... is there a 
similar but less costly product like NetWorker out there. To sum up the more 
relevant responses it seems to me the following should be taken into account:

Investigate the likes of NetBackup, CommVault, HP DataProtector, IBM Tivoli 
Storage Manager, as well as having a closer look at Open Source Software like 
Amanda/Zmanda (although I personally feel that this product falls well short of 
a comprehensive OS client & application support list).

      - what platform you wish to run the server on
      - what backup hardware you wish to use
      - what OSes are going to be backed up
      - what applications are going to be backed up
        - The level of customization available via scripting & the use of cli 
toolsets
        - Ease of Backup Server Recovery
        - Purchase cost of product & various backup licenses
        - Cost of ongoing vendor support
        - Cost of maintaining long-term networker archives and/or migrating 
archives to new backup product tape format
        - Skill/experience of local sys admin & cost/time to become familiar 
with new backup product


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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Oscar Olsson
Sent: 19 December 2008 12:18
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Other back-up products besides NetWorker

On 2008-12-18 19:58, Joe N. Wallace revealed:

JNW> One quiestion I think is relevant here:
JNW>
JNW> Why choose EMC Networker?
JNW>
JNW> Where is Networker stronger thant the competetors mentioned (Netbackup,
JNW> Commvault, Dataprotector, TSM)

The command-line tools and the ability to script stuff. Its probably a
good choice for small environments where you have a sysadmin who uses bc
instad of excel and doesn't mind compiling his own kernel.

JNW> Where are the weak sides of Networker?

Pretty much everything else.

//Oscar

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