Justin
Well, bit of a tough question to answer, as there are SO many questions I
would probably want to ask you, one of them being "Is Netbackup the product
for you" !?

How many client machines are you backing up? 
Are they a variety of operating systems? (ie: Unix, NT, 2003)
Is Netbackup going to be the corporate backup product and part of your
business strategy?

In terms of what you backup, you may be able to find this out from the
"Images on Media" report tool - most of the information about the clients
and size of data on tape can come from the Reports applet.

Netbackup is scalable, there is no doubt about that - In my own personal
view, some of the add-on's appear to be very expensive (ie SQL license,
Oracle) so you need to take costs into account.

Not sure if I am being much help here ? :-(



Simon Weaver 
Technical Support 
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium 
Tel: 02392-708598 

Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net 



-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Durrant [mailto:durrantj AT wwwebi DOT net] 
Sent: 31 January 2006 14:01
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Assistance Required


Hi


I've been asked by my manager to look at our existing backup infrastructure
and see how scaleable it is. We use NetBackup here and are running version
5.0MP5 but I am unfamiliar with the interfaces etc.

I have asked some colleagues of mine to provide me with some information
regarding how much we backup today (raw data and data on tape) but would
like to know if there are more questions that I should be asking.


I would also appreciate it if any of you had design documents that you would
be willing for me to look at? Perhaps I could use these as a reference?

I'm pretty new to Veritas and haven't been directly involved in backup
procedures for a number of years but, when the manager asks, I must obey :-/



Can anyone help me to define the new backup strategy? (which I expect to be
thoroughly changed when I show others).


Thanks in advance.
Justin



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