Re: [Networker] Other back-up products besides NetWorker
2008-12-18 15:59:51
I've watched following sort of comment appear periodically on this
list and in the past I've tended to let it slide.
On 19/12/2008, at 06:27 , Bruce Breidall wrote:
It has never been an enterprise product.
Not this time. I think Tim Mooney and another person added somewhat to
this discussion but I want to add one thing.
Backup dependencies.
I often see NetBackup bandied about as the "be all and end all" of
enterprise backup products, but it doesn't do dependency tracking - it
just throws away images as soon as they're expired regardless of any
retention time that might be otherwise considered for an entire
filesystem backups. Is that something you'd expect to see in an
enterprise backup product?
I'm not wanting to start a "my product is better than yours" war;
there are a heap of features in NetBackup that annoyingly aren't in
NetWorker - inline cloning and savesets being able to migrate from one
filled disk backup unit to another are two key examples.
Regardless though, what makes a backup product an enterprise product
is as much as anything based on whether it scales and works within
large enterprises. Its fair to say NetWorker has this in spades. It is
deployed in very large organisations, it supports multiple tiers and
centralised management over those tiers, does all the things you'd
expect of enterprise products (multiplexing, spanning, rapid data
access, etc) and is _fast_. Or rather, it's as fast as your
environment can handle. (Don't believe me? 2.86GB/s, 10TB/h is a
pretty good starting point - and that was done in 2003? 2004? by
Legato, SGI and McData, from memory.)
So, let's not get into debates about whose backup product is
enterprise and whose isn't. The question is too much like the
proverbial "how long is a piece of string?" question.
Cheers,
Preston.
--
Preston de Guise
"Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy":
http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Systems-Backup-Recovery-Corporate/dp/1420076396
http://www.enterprisesystemsbackup.com
NetWorker blog:
http://web.me.com/prestondeguise/nsrblog/Welcome.html
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