[Veritas-bu] NBU vs Legato

Chris,

What do you think of the support from Legato compared to NBU ?

-Shyam


On 9/11/06, Christian S?nder <CHRS at tdc.dk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I jused to administrate a 350+ client Legato setup, and for the past 2?
> years I have been part of administrate a 1200+ client NBU setup - my
> experience is :
>
> Legato :
> + : much better at handling backup to disk, can backup multiple instances
> on MS-SQL server with a single command, much better security on who can
> administrate AND from where, better debuging of why a client isn't running
> (savegrp -Envvvc), can handle tape write errors (NBU restarts at last
> checkpoint or restart entire job if database backup - thats BAD)
> - : uses alot of ports, 7937-9936 + 10000-30000, not the best report
> utility, though mminfo can do pretty much everything u need, poor silo
> handling (need to import media when u recreate a Silo (haven't seen the new
> 7.3 which should be able to edit a silo), if a group is running u cant
> restart another client in that group
>
> NBU :
> + : max streams pr. tapedevice, Java GUI is OK, good silo handling, can
> upgrade (unix) clients from CLI at master
> - : lousy at writing to disk, bad catalog (use a DB instead, like NBU6.0),
> when moving a client fra from group/policy to another u get a full backup at
> next run, exclude/include list is located  client side,
>
> Thats just top of my head on a Monday morning - I would like to get
> comments other suggestions/differnces between the two products :)
>
> Best regards
>
> Christian Sonder
>
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:
> veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] P? vegne af Philip McDougal
> Sendt: 8. september 2006 16:40
> Til: Daniel Teklu; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Emne: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU vs Legato
>
> I too would like to see this and/or also a comparison to CommVault.
>
> I am new to NBU after working with Legato for 6 years and at the moment,
> I find Legato to be much easier to administrate with much less hardware
> and it performed better.  However, the latest version of Legato (7.3) is
> just as buggy as 6.0.  I think both companies pushed out the latest
> release way too early but felt compelled to do so with the competitive
> market pressures.
>
> One thing I like with NBU is the out of the box reporting features.
> Legato is getting better (and there are free utilities out there that
> help) but they still have a way to go.
>
> Thanks!
> PM.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel
> Teklu
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 8:41 AM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU vs Legato
>
> Does any one have NBU vs Legato comparison docs? I have worked with NBU
> in the past but not with Legato. At my new pos. we need to upgrade the
> NBU env. I just want good reasons why we should not go with Legato but
> upgrade the current version of NBU.
>
> This is on a Solaris env.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -D
>
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