Hi Paul,
Paul Robertson wrote:
>
> My current employer is currently using Veritas NetBackup, and we're
> fairly comfortable with it. We're mostly a Solaris shop, with a couple
> of EMC Symmetrix arrays in different locations.
>
> The EMC sales folks have been getting a lot of attention from our
> management, working hard at pushing EMC's EDM backup solution for a
> new site we're setting up. At present, we're interested in hearing
> from companies which have used both these products, and can provide
> comments based on real-life experience.
>
> Naturally, introducing a second backup solution has inherent costs,
> particularly when we're already satisfied with NetBackup. We simply
> want to make sure that we base our decision on more than just a snappy
> sales presentation.
>
We habe been using EDM since 1996 (at his time it was named 'epoch') in a
network
environment (we don't use edm connect usw.). We backup unix as swell as NT
systems.
We had 2 systems with two ATL264 Juke boxes with 6xDLT 7000 each and backed up
about 240 Clients
with a daily volume of 700 - 800 GB.
Since 2000 we are moving to Netbackup. We have now only one EDM system, whose
load is decreasing.
EDM:
Plus
- central management
- intelligent scheduling
- very good restore interface
- good reporting
- good volume management
Minus
- slow
- too complex
- proprietary format
- no distributed backup supported (I mean, mo media server support)
- we had always problems with our system, SW and HW which could not be solved ,
especialyy when the load increased
- the support pepople of our OEM where we baught the System, wrote a lot of
scripts for us,to work around the sw errors
which EMC could not solve
- our support was very good. It was NOT from EMC. Unfortunately,for some
problems, he had to call EMC: forget EMC
support!
Incompetent, inexistant ...
NBU:
Plus
- fast
- simple
- robust
- use standard tar (if you do not use multiplexing)
- catalogs in ASCII: you can use the good old grep to search
Minus
- no catalog processing -> needs a lot of diskspace for catalogs
- restore interface is either slow (java) or not specially confortable (X11).
- distributed configuration
- default reporting is not very good
With our Netbackup installation: one master, 3 media server we backup 1 TB
daily, and have in comparison with
EDM, no problems.
Keep away from EDM, you won't gain anything.
Regards,
Guillaume Angleys
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