Re: Backup software; Legato vs. Veritas?

[LuftHans <LuftHans@asu.edu>]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jurgen Botz wrote:

> Hello Sages,
> 
> This should be a topic on which people have an opinion... which is
> better, Legato Networker or Veritas NetBackup?  Or is there another
> package of the same scope which is better still?
> 
> I need an enterprise backup solution and I've used mostly Legato in
> the past, but I am not entirely happy with Legato.  Aside from my
> personal dislikes Legato doesn't have two features which I would 
> like and which Veritas offers; 1) is encryption, 2) is NDMP backup
> of NetApps.

Where I just left we were using Veritas. Last I knew that will be changing. We
weren't really needing all of the "enterprise" stuff, but did have some 50
machines doing local weekly fulls and network incrementals.

We were having constant failures because Veritas couldn't read it's own tapes. 
This was the ANSI errors I asked about a couple of times more than a year ago. 
It only happened a small percentage of the time, but in 2 years they couldn't
fix it and it was annoying to have backups not work on a regular basis.  They
still haven't figured out what the problem is. The tapes are readable via dd
and gnutar. We've done a few restores via dd and gnutar as well. At least
those were possibilities :). 

There's also been a constant problem with tapes coming back too soon. I think
that was operator error, though. I didn't work on the backups, just helped try
to fix the ANSI problem.

NDMP was usually pretty flawless.

We were never impressed with their tech support staff :(.

ciao,

der.hans

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