> > of the devil.  Real Men will use frequency-based.  Real Men with
> > purchasing authority will buy an external, industrial-strength,
> > general-purpose scheduler for their enterprise.
> 
> [...] IMHO, "external, industrial strength, general purpose 
> scheduler[s]" are
> designed for general purpose use and not designed for NBU -- and will
> never approach the level of utilization that NBU will get out of your
> resources.  I'd say save that money and spend it on data protection
> management software.

Actually, I was going for the laugh.

That said, my introduction to NetBackup was taking over an Oracle shop
that added NetBackup; I couldn't abide the thought of the backup
software shutting down databases (this is pre-OEBU, pre-RMAN) rather
than the needs of the database controlling the backup.

The respect for complex external schedulers stems from environments
where a) backup is one step in a business process incorporating
significant dependency logic, b) precise date logic and knowledge of
external events is required and c) pathological servers with hundreds of
filesystems.  I expect there are others.


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