[THIN] Re: OT: Backup Software

bacup exec has always sucked.  How are they still in business?  There is very little functionality of Backup Exec that you can't recreate with the built in NT Backup, a little scripting, and common sense.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Ian Kibble <ian.kibble@complinet.com> wrote:

I've been using various versions of Veritas/Symantec Backup Exec over
the past 3 years and never been disappointed with it.

As long as the agents are available for what you need to backup from you
shouldn't have a problem.

Ian

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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On
Behalf Of Evan Mann
Sent: 12 June 2008 15:42
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] OT: Backup Software

Looking for opinions on SMB backup solutions.  My past 5 1/5 years of
backup experience are with CommVault, but I think it's going to be too
pricey and complex for the environment.  Prior to CommVault, I used
ARCServe, but I think it was v8 or 9, and it's now up to 12.

I have a few calls lined up to go over ARCServe and Backup
Exec/NetBackup. Does anyone have suggestions on other products to look
at?  The environment consists of a couple physical Windows Server boxes,
a bunch of virtual Windows Boxes running on VMware.  Something that
works with VCB would be nice.  The Tape drive in use is a LAN or FC
connected LTO3 library. I also have 2 Apple Xserve RAID arrays which are
FC connected SCSI arrays (they present as LUNs to VMware) and I am
hosting VM's on the Xserve RAIDs on those LUNs.  All actual file storage
is done inside of a Windows VM.

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