Re: Backup software; Legato vs. Veritas?

["AC.Willenbring" <acw@mapp.org>]

We dropped Legato to go to Veritas about a year ago.  We didn't like the
Legato interface, and it did a very poor job with our hardware (an Exabyte
210 8mm hanging off of a Solaris 2.5.1 box).  We also upgraded hardware at
the time due to increased volume (now it's an Exabyte 230D DLT hanging off a
Solaris 2.6 box, 'though we're keeping the 8mm for smaller needs), and we've
not experienced any of the problems der.hans is reporting.  I personally am
MUCH happier with Veritas than I was with Legato, but I have to add the
caveat that I understand how Veritas works now much better than I ever had a
chance to get with Legato, so that may be coloring my experiences, too.

And I've had nothing but good customer service from Veritas - I've heard it
didn't used to be that way, so they must've fixed that up quite a bit.

I think I'd venture to say that the answer to your question is "Depends on
which one you like better", though...

						Andrew Willenbring
						UNIX System Administrator
						MAPPCOR

> 
> 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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