Several years ago, I worked for a company that did Health Checks on backup 
products from Backup Exec, Legato  Networker and Tivoli Storage Manager.  Our 
Networker person had just left the company and although I was familiar with the 
product I didn't consider myself an expert by any means but was thrust into 
consulting on the product. Since I was thrust into it, I asked for training and 
attended the Networker Certification course at Cambridge systems(an Excellent 
Class), and after learning the product, I realized what a great product it 
truly is. On my consulting gigs, however I found that in one instance, the 
backup administrator was a housewife that came in for a few hours a day and 
though she was competent, she did not understand back ups, and soon found 
herself in trouble. I found similar situations at many other companies where 
people were thrust into the role with little or no understanding and as a 
result, many people were very unsatisfied with the product and were looking to 
get rid of it. Unfortunately, most of the criticism was unjustified, because if 
you had a knowledgable admin, it would have been just fine. But this is a VERY 
robust product with a lot of goodies in it, but you must understand it. As far 
as getting rid of the product, you must understand that doing so is not that 
easy as well, because many of the files you have created must be held for many 
years, and in order to be able to restore the product, you must also maintain a 
license for it, so the better choice in my opinion would be to learn it.  After 
I learned it I created an analysis of the backup databases using Excel macros 
so I can get a complete picure of what is out there and where the problems are. 
But the bottom line is you must understand it and this is a pilot's airplane. 
If you don't really learn it you can get burned. Bill Wilkie> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 
2013 14:23:43 +0000
> From: stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] List alive ?
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> 
> I am also surprised at the low level of traffic on this list. I wonder if it 
> is due to fewer subscribers experiencing problems with NetWorker or if more 
> people are moving away from NetWorker to other backup solutions.
> 
> On 01 21, 2013, at 3:42 AM, bingo wrote:
> 
> > Hi Thiery,
> > 
> > as you can see, it is still alive. However, the low number of 
> > visits/threads surprises me as well.
> > 
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