I forgot to mention before hitting the send button that
Rich Rose, a well respected Veritas/Symantec employee, was a member of the VBR
team and has recently left to join the Aptare team. Rumor has it that the
whole US based team who originally wrote the product was outsourced to
developers in India. That speaks a lot to me about the state of VBR within
the company as well as very promising for the future of
Aptare.
As others have said, the bottom line is to do your
homework and find the best product for your needs.
-Rusty
We are doing one right now, but won't have any info for a
couple of weeks.
We currently use Aptare (6.0.24), but my manager was wowed
by VBR at the recent Veritas Engineering Conference so we are now looking at
VBR. There are quite a few nice enhancements in Aptare 6.5 that we are waiting
on, so I think that will close up the race quite a bit.
I'll report back when we have our findings, but I would
recommend that you do a comparison of both tools. I know that VBR can collect
data and then you can send that data to Symantec who will then bundle it into a
useable product with your collected data. I'm pretty sure Aptare can do this
same thing, but don't quote me on that. For us, this will be VERY nice for
a side by side comparison. You'll also need to know what reports you want or
might want in the future as there may be some things coming out soon that you
wouldn't otherwise know about. There's also the storage reporting features of
Aptare, which I do not believe VBR does, but there's probably another Symantec
product that covers that. I believe both vendors can report on TSM, BackupExec,
Legato, etc., but how well each one does it is a different story.
I'll remember to post what we decide on and why when we are
done with the comparison.
-Rusty
I'm looking at reporting tools for NetBackup, and was wondering if
anyone has done a head-to-head comparison of Storage Console vs. Backup
Reporter. Aptare has always received high praise here, and the Veritas
product, well, has never been mentioned in the same breath as Aptare.
I've heard that Backup reporter has improved over the years, but can it
yet hold a candle to Storage Console?
Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX
Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304)
625-3946
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