Re: [Networker] Merits of Linux and Solaris

Stan Horwitz wrote:

Hello all;

There's some talk here at Temple about migrating from proprietary
operating systems to open operating systems. We're seriously considering
standardizing the University on Red Hat Linux.


In my opinion Debian would be a smarter choice.


I am wondering if any of you who run a Legato NetWorker server on a Red
Hat Linux platform can comment on your experience with it. Would you do it
again if you had the choice? What's your NetWorker environment like?

We use Solaris 9 on an Enterprise 450 with NetWorker 6.1.3 and about 110
clients with about 3TB of data backed up nightly.  We are considering
getting another server and tape library for a storage node to handle
anticipated growth in the volume of data we will be backing up and to keep
more data online. Our NetWorker server has a Qualstar tape library with
600 slots and twelve AIT-2 drives, four of which are deployed via
SnapImage for NDMP backups (no drive sharing). As such, one fly in the
ointment for us is that SnapImage isn't offered for Linux. Has anyone on
this list heard if there are any plans on Legato's part to offer a Linux
version of SnapImage?


Have you ever considered doing it without NDMP (using  NFS) ?  Or it is
not possible in your environment ?
Personally I think Solaris is still better choice for Networker backup
server. Try to keep it.
As for justification, you already have one - no SnapImage implementation
for Linux.


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