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[Veritas-bu] Assistance Required

2006-02-01 06:18:27
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Assistance Required
From: durrantj AT wwwebi DOT net (Justin Durrant)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:18:27 -0000
Hi Simon

Thanks for the response.

> 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" !?

I dont believe I have a choice in this as we already have this in place.

> How many client machines are you backing up?
Over 300 hundred boxes. Most of them are on site locally but there was
mention that perhaps we should be backing up our various remote sites.
However, our Windows admin has suggested that we could possibly use DFS for
this; so this may be the route we take on remote sites.

> Are they a variety of operating systems? (ie: Unix, NT, 2003)
We have a selection. We're only backing up servers (Solaris, RHEL and
Windows), a NetApp filer and our SAN.
I'd like to be able to backup the SAN data directly; it is currently being
backed up via the machine that uses the space but I'm sure that this is the
wrong way to do it.

> Is Netbackup going to be the corporate backup product and part of your
business strategy?
Yes, almost certainly.

> 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.
Thankyou, I'll take a look at these reports.

> 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.
Phew, that kinda answers part of the issue. Not sure about add-on's that
we'd require. I havent heard mention of costs yet so I wont be losing any
sleep over this.

> Not sure if I am being much help here ? :-(
Any help is more than I had to start with. Thanks muchly

Justin



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