At my company, I've been using Veritas NetBackup Professional for years
and have been very happy with it. I can back up 90+ clients (20-30G
disks) in about 700G of server space!

Now we need to buy more seats... Veritas has discontinued the product
and does not sell additional seats (even without support).

They want me to use their "Desktop/Laptop" option ($)with one of their
server backup products ($$$). (Netbackup or Backup Exec)  I use Amanda
for my server backups and am very happy with it (not the mention the cost!).

The problem is these new products don't support "Single Instance Store",
where only one copy of a file is stored no matter how many folks have
it.  For example, all 90+ laptops have "freecell.exe" on them..
NetBackup pro only stores it once, and uses DB links for the others.
This is not a big deal for freecell, but if you look at XP and Office,
the space adds up big-time. (as you can see with the above numbers).

In addition, the new products don't support bare-metal restore, but I
can live without that.

Does anyone know of a similar replacement?  Preferably not by
Veritas/Semantec (screw me once.....)

Robert

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I am in the same boat as you. We have also used NBU Prof for years and
years. I have had talks with different Veritas account managers and
got the same answer as you.
On a private basis I have also talk to some of the consultants at
Veritas and they where just shaking their head, especialy because they
at that time told me they even was using it internaly in Veritas to
backup their own laptops.

DLO isn't an interesting solution, at least not for me.
And we even are a faily havy user of Netbackup Enterprise server.

We will switch to Altiris Recovery Solution. Not because it is better
then DLO, but because it will integrate in the rest of our Altiris
Total Management Suite solution and hopefully make it a little more
easy for our helpdesk.

If you find a good solution for your replacement of NBU Prof please
let me know.

/johnny


On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:55:31 GMT, Robert Eden <rmeden@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>At my company, I've been using Veritas NetBackup Professional for years
>and have been very happy with it. I can back up 90+ clients (20-30G
>disks) in about 700G of server space!
>
>Now we need to buy more seats... Veritas has discontinued the product
>and does not sell additional seats (even without support).
>
>They want me to use their "Desktop/Laptop" option ($)with one of their
>server backup products ($$$). (Netbackup or Backup Exec)  I use Amanda
>for my server backups and am very happy with it (not the mention the cost!)
.
>
>The problem is these new products don't support "Single Instance Store",
>where only one copy of a file is stored no matter how many folks have
>it.  For example, all 90+ laptops have "freecell.exe" on them..
>NetBackup pro only stores it once, and uses DB links for the others.
>This is not a big deal for freecell, but if you look at XP and Office,
>the space adds up big-time. (as you can see with the above numbers).
>
>In addition, the new products don't support bare-metal restore, but I
>can live without that.
>
>Does anyone know of a similar replacement?  Preferably not by
>Veritas/Semantec (screw me once.....)
>
>Robert

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