Author: Brett Monroe <mr.bmonroe AT GMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:49:39 -0700
Hey all, I work in a data center that's, for the last 5 years, had a backup "strategy" of attaching a tape drive to every server and running fulls nightly. We now have hundreds of servers (both Winte
Author: "Greggs, Dana" <c-dgreggs AT STATE.PA DOT US>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:20:31 -0400
I wouldn't even though I have had my pains with Networker (particularly 5.x and 6.0). Other than Networker 7.3.x which I upgraded to but rolled back to 7.2.2, Networker just works. We have it fine tu
Brett, You'd be amazed to find out how many companies are in the same boat. Data/Tape/Backup consolidation is huge right now. Networker and NetBackup are both enterprise class software packages and i
Author: Shyam Hegde <hegde.shyam AT GMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:08:30 +0530
Hello Brett, If your backup server is on UNIX, it is best to be with NetWorker. Most of the time in my experience, backup failures were because of client side issues, Network or DNS related problems.
Author: "Greggs, Dana" <c-dgreggs AT STATE.PA DOT US>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:54:59 -0400
I concur with both of the previous posts. When you get to the Enterprise level unless you can clearly justify the costs both in money and time, unless what you have is clearly not working stick with
Author: Librado Pamintuan <LPamintuan AT REGINA DOT CA>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:05:42 -0600
Same as others, my server side is almost at 99% (Red Hat Linux O/S) stable, most issues/problems is on the client side. One major factor before you think/consider regarding the switch are your tapes
Author: "Greggs, Dana" <c-dgreggs AT STATE.PA DOT US>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:39:24 -0400
Speaking of training, I have only had two great experiences as far as training goes and one of them a Legato Networker Admin class. Others in this forum have had and expressed similar experiences at
Author: John Stoffel <john.stoffel AT TAEC.TOSHIBA DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:00:08 -0400
Gah! You must have a ton of tape monkeys... :] Yikes... talk about crazy. I mean waiting that long for a tape library! I've done the move from Legato to Netbackup in a previous job and it wasn't pre
Author: Brett Monroe <mr.bmonroe AT GMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:39:22 -0700
Hey all, Thanks for all your feedback. I totally agree with practicaly all of your arguments...especially the scriptability and granularity aspects. I was leaning heavily toward Networker but all the
Author: Peter Viertel <Peter.Viertel AT MACQUARIE DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:21:54 +1000
I would say stick with NetWorker. Then you can restore your old sun backups easily. But remember, if you want it to work, use 7.2.2. don't be tempted to 'upgrade' to 7.3 Hey all, I work in a data cen
Author: Stuart Whitby <swhitby AT DATAPROTECTORS.CO DOT UK>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:26:56 +0100
Unless something's changed recently, you don't need a NetWorker license to recover data. As such, if someone did decide to migrate to a different backup platform, they'd still be able to recover data