If you’re at NetBackup V6, you can look at NetBackup Operations
Manager – it’s free to use and depending on your requirements, it
may do the job. If it won’t, there are several commercial products
out there that support V5 as well as V6. The one I use is StorageConsole
from Aptare. You can check this out at http://www.aptare.com.
The price depends on your configuration – the number of master servers,
media servers, and clients. You can contact them for a quote. There
are other vendors out there too – Bocada is one I’ve previously evaluated
but it didn’t come close to Aptare.
Symantec also sells the separately licensed Backup Reporter.
They have had several entries in the reporting market but I don’t think
that any of them get close to a product like StorageConsole.
For both NOM and StorageConsole, you’ll need a dedicated
reporting server.
The one thing I don’t like about Aptare’s licensing
is that you will likely have a different client count for NetBackup than you
have for Aptare since they count them differently. Let’s say you have
a blade farm with 8 VMware blades hosting 100 Windows guests. NetBackup
requires 8 client licenses. Aptare requires 100 – this is a
actually a configuration we’re planning today so I’m not making
this up. We already have a 3 node Windows cluster that has 3 NetBackup
licenses but about 30 Aptare licenses since each virtual server requires a
separate StorageConsole license in addition to the physical node licenses.
The product is great but the licensing model leaves something to be desired.
…/Ed
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i would like to implement reports/statistics on backups.
Have you experienced the netbackup tools for V5 and V6
netbackup version ?
can you give me an idea of the price ?
I want easily have a reports for one server on 1 month of all the
backups for exemple or just for all unix or just all windows, etc ...