I just responded to another post, similar questions about Veritas (I've had
some interactions with the ARCserve world).

If you contact me off-the-list, I can refer you to a customer sys-admin who
has used both -- he was an ARCserve "bigot", but now has gotten trained on
TSM so he can do enterprise-level storage management (rather than the
cutesy/GUI stuff that gets you "sucked in" to thinking CA-ARCserve can maybe
"handle it").


Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
San Jose, Ca
(408) 257-3037
mailto:don_france AT att DOT net

Professional Association of Contract Employees
(P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com)



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Vin Yam
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:08 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: TSM 5.1 vs CA Brightstor Arcserve 2000!?!


Hello,

A major organization is considering CA Brightstor Arcserve 2000 as a
replacement for the current TSM 4.1.5 setup for its backing up of mission
critical data of a single server.  Are there any whitepapers or documents
available that critique performance, data integrity, and ease of use of the
two data management solutions?  Although I personally prefer TSM due to its
speed using diskpools, and data integrity and tracking abilities, many
people are voicing a return to Arcserve because of its ease of use.  They
are currently considering CA Brightstor Arcserve 2000 because of its ability
to use diskpools???  I haven't taken a look at Arcserve 2000 in depth, but I
wasn't sure if this was a possibility and was looking to fellow TSM users to
help me out in presenting fair information to compare the two.

Thanks,

Vin
vyam AT qbct DOT com