>>>>> "Ryan" == Ryan Pugatch <[email protected]> writes:
Ryan> On 12/14/2010 03:38 PM, John Stoffel wrote: >> What are your needs? That would help us give you suggestions. >> Disk2disk? D2T? What? Ryan> disk to disk to offsite disk. Do you have money to spend? How much data? Ryan> getting offsite via 100Mbit or 1GigE Yeah, you have money. :] Though I bet you're not going too far offsite with your setup at those prices. I personally still like Legato/EMC networker, but I haven't used it for years. The CLI tools are very well done so you can easily script up reports or do stuff by hand. And the browsing for restores is excellent, best I've ever used out of: Veritas NetBackup 5.x, Legato Networker 4.x & 5.x, Bacula, Commvault 7.x and 8.x. The big thing to remember is that no one cares about backups, they only care about restores. So a tool which makes restores easy and painless is the best. Also, if you are using Netapp storage, it might be worth it to snapmirror across your WAN link and then backup to disk remotely. Not cheap I admit, but certainly lets you keep your DR and restore options lightning fast. CommVault will do the D2D2D without a problem, but I'm not really enamored of how they do things. They have this Java client to do any and all changes and it's just not nice at times. They have an interesting mindset (and they've been around for ages and ages, spun off from AT&T) and it does work. It's just... painful to wrap you head around. Bacula is open source and fairly easy to setup, but... the restore process is out of the 80s, and just not friendly. You can buy professional support, and maybe they have better tools on that side of things. I do use it at home, and it has saved my bacon, but it's not what I think it should be. Amanda. Haven't used it for years and years. It might now be called zmanad or something. You might want ot check it out. Veritas Netbackup. I didn't like it when I used it, but I can't say I used it in anger at all. And it was over six years ago, so god knows what's changed. Are you looking for backup a single large system? A bunch of smaller stuff? Money to burn? Willingness to go opensource? John _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
