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Hi All,
After taking over for my old boss I'm giving our backup solutions a major overhaul.
At present I've got a Windows 2K box running SQL, a Win2k3 box, 2 OES servers one running Zenworks the other running GroupWise.
In the past we've pretty much let the servers backup themselves. A lot like making a spare key and keeping it on your keyring if you have a severe hardware failure. Add to that we've got 2 different backup solutions. ArcServe for Windows 2K and BackUp Exec for Netware. Of the two I like BackUp Exec for ease of use and reliability, however since Symantec bought them their Novell solutions pretty much suck. (We'll backup all your servers, but Novell has to backup locally....WHY!?!?!)
At any rate I'm looking for an independent solution and NovaNet seems to have all that I need at a price that I can afford.
I've not heard a lot from folks who have had experience with it and I'm still keeping my mind open. I can't afford SyncSort for our environment their quote came in at around $30,000....right now even with all the plug-ins and hardware NovaNet comes in around 12,000.
On a side note...does everyone like LTO-3?
After taking over for my old boss I'm giving our backup solutions a major overhaul.
At present I've got a Windows 2K box running SQL, a Win2k3 box, 2 OES servers one running Zenworks the other running GroupWise.
In the past we've pretty much let the servers backup themselves. A lot like making a spare key and keeping it on your keyring if you have a severe hardware failure. Add to that we've got 2 different backup solutions. ArcServe for Windows 2K and BackUp Exec for Netware. Of the two I like BackUp Exec for ease of use and reliability, however since Symantec bought them their Novell solutions pretty much suck. (We'll backup all your servers, but Novell has to backup locally....WHY!?!?!)
At any rate I'm looking for an independent solution and NovaNet seems to have all that I need at a price that I can afford.
I've not heard a lot from folks who have had experience with it and I'm still keeping my mind open. I can't afford SyncSort for our environment their quote came in at around $30,000....right now even with all the plug-ins and hardware NovaNet comes in around 12,000.
On a side note...does everyone like LTO-3?
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Hey pgm554...it depends I've got ArcServe 2000 and pretty much think that it sucks. Well, ok sucks might be a bit strong I guess not very intuitive is my grief with it. No one I'd talked to had mentioned it so I may take a look at it. If you've had ArcServe2000 how would you compare their current product to it?
alextoft you raise a very good point. I was already looking at autoloaders and my assistant mentioned the off-site storage we are supposed to be doing. Unfortunately we run nightly backups and have a single loading tape, so unless someone comes in on their day off to swap the tapes we're pretty well sunk. I was looking at the Dell PowerVault 124T with a LTO3 option. I know it comes with at least 8 slots it may come with 16...if not then I'll probably pop for the extra carriage. It'd definitely be nice to only have to load it up once a week and not have to worry about making an extra copy for off-site storage.
alextoft you raise a very good point. I was already looking at autoloaders and my assistant mentioned the off-site storage we are supposed to be doing. Unfortunately we run nightly backups and have a single loading tape, so unless someone comes in on their day off to swap the tapes we're pretty well sunk. I was looking at the Dell PowerVault 124T with a LTO3 option. I know it comes with at least 8 slots it may come with 16...if not then I'll probably pop for the extra carriage. It'd definitely be nice to only have to load it up once a week and not have to worry about making an extra copy for off-site storage.
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As for Symantec ,following true to form,they have managed to p*ss off their old Veritas customers with a new licensing portal,which is screwing up upgrades and such.
Check out :
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005574&pageNumber=3
You kind of knew it was just a matter of time before Veritas was Symantecized!
CA is looking better these days.
Check out :
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005574&pageNumber=3
You kind of knew it was just a matter of time before Veritas was Symantecized!
CA is looking better these days.
Symantecized.
Hmmm...
I wonder if we could come up with a few Wikopedia definitions for the term?
Hmmm...
I wonder if we could come up with a few Wikopedia definitions for the term?
The alextoft comment was for the "side note" so really isn't an "answer" to the Question.
Although pgm554 mentioned BrightStor ARCserve first, I did flesh it out considerably, so my contribution shouldn't be ignored.
Although pgm554 mentioned BrightStor ARCserve first, I did flesh it out considerably, so my contribution shouldn't be ignored.
Their stuff has gotton better,but it seems to be a circular path going from usable to sucks to usable.