Folks,

My current employer is running an ancient version (3.4) of Netbackup, 
backing up mostly Solaris and Windows clients in three datacenters. The 
largest datacenter has about 15TB of mostly oracle data.

We've finally gotten approval to purchase updated backup software and 
tape libraries, and we're considering our options. From a software 
perspective, we're content with Netbackup, but we're not sure it offers 
the best value anymore. We're also a little skittish after reading 
negative comments on this list about Netbackup 6.0.

Netbackup has an inherent advantage because we currently use it, but our 
current version is so old that we wouldn't upgrade the existing 
installation. We'd leave it around for a few years just for restore 
requests. So we're in the fortunate position where we can effectively 
start from scratch.

After a preliminary investigation, we've narrowed our options to 
Netbackup, Networker, or CommVault Galaxy. I'm interested in learning 
from list members about their opinions of these products. I understand 
that this is a Netbackup list, but I'm hoping to hear stories from 
people who have used these competing products, and can share light on 
the relative merits of each.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Paul


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