>One of my customers is considering a backup solution, the main competitors
>being ADSM and NetBackup, i have to come up with the major pros and cons
and
>as usual time is very short...i have mainly worked with ADSM ..i talked to
>the Veritas guys who gave the following main  points
>
>1. Central management console...i believe this also has the ability to
>monitor/restart backups on a enterprise level...? they say its much more
>powerful and robust than ADSM's enterprise web administration
>2. Multiplexing to sequential devices - this utiltizes the high speed
drives
>fully
>3. Because of master-slave approach, there is potential for better
>availability, because policies can be replicated, as well as media manager
>databases
>4. Because of optional tar format, DR will be a breeze as long as uu have
>the tapes, even if u lose your database or catalog
>
>Any thoughts, experiences, comments....
>
>Jawad Khayyam Butt