I've run Networker on both Unix (HPUX) and Windows for the past 10
years. Having a Unix background , I much prefer that over Windows since
I have a better understanding on how the OS is put together (to me, it's
much more logical and reliable than Windows). It just seems to run
better/smoother on Unix. And since Networker was originally developed on
Solaris and I think Solaris is still the platform where they first
develop and implement patches & bug fixes, it's still being used as a
base platform for the product. Everything else it runs on has been
ported to that OS from Solaris. I don't have the hard data to prove it,
but I feel Networker simply runs best on its native platform, or as
close to it as possible (Linux or any Unix). I think it looses something
when it's ported to run on Windows... For example, we have a
multi-processor server(4), and it never really seems to utilize all the
processors available to it... It only seems to utilize one of the 4
processors most of the time. I'd almost bet that it would perform
measurably better on any Unix platform (Solaris would be best) verses
Windows... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Birkenbach
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:24 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] NetWorker host: Solaris vs. Windows vs. Linux
> 
> Generally, I agree in making minimal changes.  For me, it's 
> all one big change.  I'm new to both Solaris and NetWorker.  
> Since I'm more familiar with Windows, and being that I'm the 
> one that's responsible for the enterprise backup system, I 
> thought this would be a good opportunity to eliminate one 
> unknown for me (Solaris) and concentrate learning efforts on 
> just NetWorker.
> 
> There may be good reasons as to why not to go to a Windows 
> platform or to make these two changes.  That's what's 
> prompted me to post to this list. 
> I'm hoping to learn from others experience before making some 
> colossal mistakes...
> 
> -Tom
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:10:37 -0500, David Magda 
> <dmagda AT EE.RYERSON DOT CA> wrote:
> 
> >On Mar 4, 2009, at 13:58, Tom Birkenbach wrote:
> >> I'm going to be doing an upgrade from NetWorker v7.3.2 on 
> Solaris 8 
> >> to v7.4.x on new hardware.  I'm thinking of changing the OS to 
> >> Windows Server 2008.
> >
> >Any reason why you're changing two elements (NetWorker 
> version and OS) 
> >at the same time? Personally I try to avoid this and try to 
> only make a 
> >single change at a time whenever possible.
> 
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