http://storagemagazine.techtarget.com/magIssue/0,291265,sid35_iss1123349,00.html
has an interesting survey about backup software.
registration required unfortunately
as I recall, comvault did very well. Our usual suspects (your choices)
did pretty well.


On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 19:17 -0700, Ballinger, John M wrote:
> Terry or anyone out there -
> 
> Can you aim me to where I might find an independent(or not) comparison 
> between the following three products:
>       EMC/LegatoNetworker
>       IBM     Tivoli Storage Manager(TSM)
>       Veritas NetBackup, v5
> We have been using NetWorker in a big way for a number of years - but are 
> investigating whether to stay with them or not at this point.  Just thinking 
> about switching to another product gives me a headache.  
> 
> Thanks - John
>       
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT 
> EDU] On Behalf Of Terry Lemons
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 10:18 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Second IP on Server
> 
> Before doing this, you should make sure that your single Ethernet adapter is, 
> indeed, the bottleneck.  For instance, if your backup and/or storage node 
> server CPU is running 90-100% busy (perhaps handling the IP traffic 
> containing your backup data coming in from clients via the LAN), or if your 
> backup client is busy, slow, or has many small files, then adding a second 
> Ethernet adapter won't help.
> 
> Where is your bottleneck now?  That will help us advise you.
> 
> If you're not sure, check out the NetWorker Performance Tuning book, 
> available (as are all NetWorker manuals) on the Legato web site.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> tl
> 
> Terry Lemons
> CLARiiON Appliance Engineering
> CLARiiON Application Solutions Integration EMC² where information lives 4400 
> Computer Drive, MS D239 Westboro MA 01580
> Phone: 508 898 7312
> Email: Lemons_Terry AT emc DOT com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT 
> EDU] On
> Behalf Of Alan Skinner
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 12:42 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Second IP on Server
> 
> I am on a 100mb network.  Trying to make my back ups faster. My hp server 
> has a single network interface card with two ports. I have a library with 2 
> sdlt 320's rated at 16MB per second per driver. I am averaging 6 or 7 MB 
> per second per drive. What I thought I could do is assign a second ip to 
> the other nic.  Then go around and change half my host files so that half 
> my servers would backup on the other ip, basically increase my input to the 
> backup server. I did the experiment but networker is giving me a connection 
> refused. The client recognises the fully qualified domain name and the 
> second ip. I am a windows environment. Is there any configuration on the 
> networker server that needs to done.
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