I am looking at upgrading to NW 8.* and was hoping there might have been
some advancements to the Windows backups.  Reading the documents, it seems
to have gotten even more convoluted.  There is a BMR option now with
the DISASTER_RECOVERY:\
save set but there are caveats.  There are a lot of "be careful" - if that,
then this or mixing this with that and so on.  The DISASTER_RECOVERY:\ save
set has it's own caveat of a huge double backup when doing a full
backup if critical
data is deemed to be on a volume.  You can turn off the DISASTER_RECOVERY:\
save set but than you are back to the 10 to 14 GB full backups per night of
the VSS SYSTEM STATE stuff.  I backup upwards of 300 Windows clients and
this adds up in a hurry.  I am interested in how others are handling this
issue?  I know deduplication is an option but it is an expensive solution
and adds another layer of complexity.  Are there other backup
software/solutions other than NetWorker available?  I assume all the other
backup software has the same problems because as far as I can tell this is
a Microsoft "enhancement".  Although, this would be nice to confirm?

Cheers,
Chase