[Veritas-bu] Considering moving to NetBackup
2003-01-24 16:37:01
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[Veritas-bu] Considering moving to NetBackup |
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jkennedy AT qualcomm DOT com (Kennedy, Jeffrey) |
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Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:37:01 -0800 |
Well, until last week they did not support DAR. This is an indication
of their commitment to NDMP (or lack of) since every other major backup
vendor had supported DAR over a year ago. And dynamic drive sharing for
NDMP? Don't look for that for another year even though NetVault from
Backbone had it a year ago as well.
For some reason, Veritas sees themselves as a competitor of NetApp even
though their NAS product is light years behind a filer.
The scripting in NBU is pretty decent so you will win on that front.
The client push only works for the same platform as the master. So in a
mixed environment you will still visit the clients that are a differing
platform than the master.
I will say this, the write format alone might be worth it. I have had
to recover data from the catalogue tapes many times using tar rather
than NBU.
~JK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deb [mailto:deb AT tickleme.llnl DOT gov]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 12:48 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Considering moving to NetBackup
>
> I want to thank everyone for their responsses so far - keep 'em coming
> though.
>
> First of all let me respond to Jeff's inquiry, "Is there something in
> particular that's got you irritated enough to migrate an entire
enterprise
> to
> a different software?"
>
> A lot of things. Here's a list of just a few (from the Sun side of
> things):
>
> 1. With over 200 clients, updating them from one release to the next
> requires
> going to each client (via login of some kind) and doing an
interactive
> pkgadd. I'm told that NBU allows client updates to be "pushed
out."
> This
> would save a lot of time, and be version reliable.
>
> 2. Version control is an issue with LGTO - if you get a patch for
> something,
> there is not centrally located way to track which box has what
patch,
> and
> it is usually not in pkg format. LGTO just doesn't track version
> changes,
> such as date and time and version.
>
> 3. Scripting *can* be a nightmare - while some folks love mminfo, it
takes
> a
> long time to get the incantations correct, and nsradmin -i is a
joke,
> and
> not easily scripted. There may be a perl module out there with
bells
> and
> whistles, but I've yet to find it.
>
> 4. Size limitations on directives.
>
> 5. Installing devices and jukeboxes are a nightmare - if you mistype
> something
> in during jbconfig, you must start all over again from the
beginning.
> LGTO doesn't support drive serialization.
>
> 6. LGTO doesn't support MacOS clients, NBU has support.
>
> 7. LGTO cannot stage to disk w/o purchasing an option, NBU can stage,
need
> other products to to automatic staging, however.
>
> 8. LGTO writes in proprietary format to tapes, NBU is modified
gnu-tar.
>
> 9. Takes forever to pre-label legato tapes PRIOR to backup. NBU does
it
> at
> backup time (less SA intervention).
>
> As for NDMP - that is something I am interested in - however, if NBU
has
> lousy
> support for that, we'd most likely use LGTO.
>
> I'd be interested in what the NBU issues are with NDMP. I didn't know
> that
> there ARE issues in this area!!
>
> Comments, Suggestion, Jokes ?? :-)
>
> Thanks, guys,
>
> deb
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